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Frank Dana

lots of verbatims pointed out to expectations for the project health to sustain the individual developer's life.

Sorry, but in all seriousness, could somebody translate that into... like... non-business-jargonese? I can't even unpack what it's meant to be saying.

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José Miguel Parrella

It means many people that left a comment wrote something along the lines of: "[open source sustainability means] the possibility to contribute to open source software development while my life expectatives are assured" (all verbatims were captured in English which wasn't the native language of most respondents)

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Frank Dana

Ah, thanks! That's... clearer.

(Verbatim is a noun, now? When did that happen?)

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José Miguel Parrella

It might very well be an abuse of the language in market research (appreciate you pointing it out!) methods.sagepub.com/reference/ency...