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Huge majority of OSS developers (especially for big projects) are paid for their opensource work too.
by izacus 2y ago
Huge majority of OSS developers (especially for big projects) are paid for their opensource work too.
- monsieurbanana 2y agoI don't think so. If you're saying that in big projects (e.g. Linux) most developers are paid, sure, but those projects are a drop in the ocean of open source projects. I doubt very much that there are more paid than unpaid OSS developers but neither of us are bringing numbers.
- mnau 2y agoThe 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer report (https://explore.tidelift.com/2024-survey https://explore.tidelift.com/2024-survey) disagrees. And that is probably the most comprehensive one that actually favors large projects, because of Tidelift business model. > The portion of respondents who reported they are unpaid hobbyists remains at 60 percent, the same as in last year's survey. Only 12% checked "I'm a semi-professional maintainer, and earn most of my income from maintaining projects." 24% checked "some of my income from maintaining projects"
- izacus 2y agoThe site keeps shoving a data colleciton popup in my face so I can't read it - what's the sample/methodology for a "maintainer" here? Do they normalize against the usage of their output projects at all? Are those projects the size of Jetbrains IDEs - e.g. Linux kernel, ffmpeg, VIM, Emacs, etc. ?