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> I'm still blown away of how good an operating system can be that is being developed mostly by volunteers without any central authority. Linux is mostly devel

> I'm still blown away of how good an operating system can be that is being developed mostly by volunteers without any central authority. Linux is mostly developed by paid developers these days. > https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/who-contributes-to-the-linux-kernel-linux-programming-opensource/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/who-contributes-to-the-...

mhh__ 6y ago
The Kernel is one big chunk of many to make up a distro
emilsedgh 6y ago
Only the kernel is mostly developed by paid developers. Linux on the Desktop has always volunteer-driven. I think KDE used to have like 15-ish paid developers at its peak and nowadays it even fewer.