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I am curious… what percentage of FOSS work for the most critical systems is done by people working for free verse people on a company payroll? I feel like most
by cortesoft 4y ago
I am curious… what percentage of FOSS work for the most critical systems is done by people working for free verse people on a company payroll? I feel like most big FOSS projects have corporate sponsors.
- quanticle 4y agoMost big FOSS projects do have corporate sponsors, but what about their dependencies? And the dependencies of the dependencies? Eventually you end up with a situation like what you have with OpenSSL or NTP, where an obscure but important component is owned by someone who has a day job and can't properly look after it.
- di4na 4y agoNearly none for the really critical components. Even the one with sponsors do not make that much. Typical example. Last year was the first time the curl project could pay for their website hosting vs the author paying it from his own pocket. Curl.