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Opensource is not volunteers. I would say the most successfull opensource projects are driven by people who get their paycheck for developing them. Look at Linu
by ss7pro 7y ago
Opensource is not volunteers. I would say the most successfull opensource projects are driven by people who get their paycheck for developing them. Look at Linux, Kubernetes, mariadb ... They represent multi milion dollar investments by small, big and huge companies. People doing mainstream opensource as their side task do not exist.
- icebraining 7y agoThe obvious counter-example is OpenSSL: used everywhere, yet survived based on volunteer work for years. I would be surprised if there weren't plenty more in the myriad of dependencies used by those well-known projects.
- mjevans 7y agoOpen Source is Open Infrastructure; and as an intellectual infrastructure we should be doing a lot more to fund it with 'tax dollars' as something that is enshrined in higher learning institutions; all of them. That would be the best way to support those interested in a career that produces open source contributions to our intellectual commons. Unfortunately the plague that is rent seeking and patents have muddied the waters for that type of work for a long time.
- wrtra 7y ago> Opensource is not volunteers. > People doing mainstream opensource as their side task do not exist. The vast majority of github projects prove that statement false.
- eikenberry 7y agoMany of the largest, most known projects are this way but like most arts there is a really long tail of smaller projects that are done and maintained by people without pay.