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I've done open source work for 10 years. I'm pretty sure I know what open source means. You can have a look at GitHub; there are 25 million active repos on the

I've done open source work for 10 years. I'm pretty sure I know what open source means. You can have a look at GitHub; there are 25 million active repos on there; at least 99% of them are not sponsored by any company and nobody gets paid to work on them. People like the OP and yourself are spreading distorted ideas which harm open source and the software ecosystem as a whole. Putting open source projects on the same level as commercial software is not right. They are often completely different kinds of people behind them.

benji-york 9y ago
You're probably mostly right, but note that there is a bit of a "dark matter" issue here. A lot of open source work is done at the behest of an employer and on the clock but still appears to be a "personal" project. I have worked on many open source projects that would appear to be entirely the work of individuals, when they are in fact working on company time.