>I have always wondered how people make money while purely working on OSS projects which generate so little revenue if any. Basically, they don't, except for a

>I have always wondered how people make money while purely working on OSS projects which generate so little revenue if any. Basically, they don't, except for a few exceptions. Some small minority gets to do it as a full-time career because they either 1) work for a company that has an open-source business model of some kind (such as Magento, which is open-source but the code is uncommented and difficult to understand, so they sell services in customizing it for e-shop owners), or 2) work for a company or foundation that large corporations fund in order to advance open-source infrastructure (e.g. The Linux Foundation, people at Intel working on Linux drivers for Intel hardware, etc.). And maybe 3) they work in some capacity at a university and do open-source work that way. Everyone else does it for free in their spare time. And they're doing it less and less it seems; notice that FOSS's heyday was really back in the early 2000s: sourceforge, freshmeat, etc. were all hot sites back then, and there was all kinds of new open-source software coming out constantly. Now it's stagnating: the generation that was interested in this stuff has gotten old, become middle-aged, and gotten married and maybe had kids, so they don't have free time for that stuff any more. The younger generation, by and large, isn't picking up the slack (probably because the economy is shit and they're all working on their "side hustle" because they're rightfully paranoid about making enough money to maintain their standard of living in the face of ever-increasing rents).