>you're dealing with a largely voluntary unpaid workforce that requires a lot of effort to become proficient Are you, though? "While many people tend to think

>you're dealing with a largely voluntary unpaid workforce that requires a lot of effort to become proficient Are you, though? "While many people tend to think of open source projects as being developed by passionate volunteers, the Linux kernel is mostly developed by people who are paid by their employers to contribute." - https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/ https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/ And even if this were true, Linux is no ordinary FOSS project at the risk of losing "viability", with what I imagine is an absolute minimal amount of casual contributors which would be turned off by this sort of supposed "barrier to entry".