One thing I will caution those who do take the offer, the company will use you until you are no longer necessary and then throw you out (extinguish)
It might also be worth mentioning that Poettering was an employee at Red Hat, working on these open source projects, so I'd assume he was being paid more than 50 dollars a month for his work.
And I have actively watched OSS devs get shown the door when their work no longer matched the company's mission.
Maybe not 500k, but is 400k that far off?
Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
Late stage, huh?