[bregma]

I love the way commenters here equate FLOSS development with unpaid hobbyist developers.

Fact: most of the contributors to the Linux kernel are highly-paid professionals who do that work full time.

The same goes for many, if not most, of the popular and successful FLOSS projects.

It is an error to assume that free (as in speech) software is only made by free (as in beer) development.

[megous]

Fact based on what? I don't doubt the kernel claim. There are regular LWN summaries, about what companies contributed to whatever release.

But I have no clue what you're basing your second claim on. There's huge amount of FLOSS programs that work fine, are useful, but don't get much contributions. And I don't know about any studies/overviews on what number of programs say in a Debian distro is a work of passion, and what is created by paid devs.