> I believe the majority of people working on open source projects are like me: they work on things someone pays them for but do not have the time to do anythin

> I believe the majority of people working on open source projects are like me: they work on things someone pays them for but do not have the time to do anything for someone else. To be fair, I've also occasionally had people pay me to add features to my project. However, most of the work I've done has been volunteer, at no charge. Also, I'm not sure I agree that the majority of people working on open source projects are like you. Perhaps the more popular projects have one or two individuals working like you, but even then, there are a lot of commits coming in from volunteers. At least, that's my impression from the frontend community (JavaScript) and functional programming communities (Scala, Haskell, etc.).