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Most (some sources say ~80%) Linux contributors are paid by their employer.

• ekjhgkejhgk 11mo ago
  I hope that's true. Do you have a source?
  • n3t 11mo ago
    "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025) Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ "Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linux-foundation-releases-annual-linux-development-report https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012)
    • ekjhgkejhgk 11mo ago
      This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.