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I think what they meant is that a lot of popular open source projects are maintained/created originally by companies. So, Facebook created React. FB devs are, i

I think what they meant is that a lot of popular open source projects are maintained/created originally by companies. So, Facebook created React. FB devs are, i assume, paid for working on React, even though it doesn't directly benefit FB itself (they aren't writing a new messenger feature, for example)

throwaway858 4y ago
For every React there are 1000 other open source projects run entirely by volunteers. I am curious if there is actual data on the number of man-hours that are spent on open source per year, and how many of those are funded by corporations. My guess is that it is less than 1%.