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> people tend to seek meaning not money. The emergence of OSS ecosystem is the best example -- a lot of it, including Look at a list of who the largest contrib
by scarface74 4y ago
> people tend to seek meaning not money. The emergence of OSS ecosystem is the best example -- a lot of it, including
Look at a list of who the largest contributors are to Linux.
https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
Most of the contributors are getting paid to do so.
Do you really think most of the 2.7 million developers in the US are contributing to open source?
- throwaway290 4y agoAbsolutely the case now, but not quite how these things tend to get started. Regarding how many in the US contribute, I don't know the stats... Could probably be more if work-life balance/employment security was better.
- scarface74 4y agoRead about the “Dark Matter Developers” https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...