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A huge amount of open source projects are done by people payed to develop them.

• goodpoint 5y ago
  yet the Reproducible Builds project has been started and driven almost entirely by Debian volunteers: https://reproducible-builds.org/who/people/ https://reproducible-builds.org/who/people/
  • cowsandmilk 5y ago
    That page specifically says their work is funded. I’m sure all the core members do a ton of volunteer work for Debian, but I believe they are now being paid for work on reproducible builds.
    • sanxiyn 5y ago
      It's funded by donation to Reproducible Builds project, and donation is managed by Software Freedom Conservancy (free software organization which also manages donation for Git, QEMU, Samba, and Wine). It's not like they are paid by their employers. You can donate yourself. It is tax-deductible in US. They include logos for donation larger than $25,000. Logos are here: https://reproducible-builds.org/who/sponsors/ https://reproducible-builds.org/who/sponsors/. Top sponsor is Google Open Source Security Team.
    • goodpoint 5y ago
      No, funded does not mean that people are paid for every hour of contribution they do or that they do it full-time. Of the entire set of contributors, most are paid zero. Some are paid.