Oh anyone who does stuff like this is almost definitely on the clock. It may have started out with people tinkering with an OS as a hobby, but modern Linux, the

Oh anyone who does stuff like this is almost definitely on the clock. It may have started out with people tinkering with an OS as a hobby, but modern Linux, the fairly reliable multi-platform behemoth kernel we use today, relies on huge companies like Microsoft, IBM, VMWare, AWS, Google, etc. hiring the maintainers and paying them to maintain the kernel. It could never work if it was all evenings-and-weekends people. It’s just too much work. And that’s fine! It’s incredible that a collaborative effort like Linux (protected by the GPL, which forces the issue) can pull in all these big companies’ resources, given that the companies would probably prefer to have their employees work on things that only benefit them and not their competitors.