[mvexel]

The statement is at least partly true. Nearly all big corporations and many smaller ones have people on the payroll contributing to OSM. And there are entire countries where paid / commercial editing makes up the majority of contributions to OSM. See this post from last year that breaks it down: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jennings%20Anderson/diary....

[diggernet]

Hang on... I can get paid to edit OSM instead of just doing it for fun? Where do we find those jobs?

[matkoniecz]

This is typically offered as minimum wage job in poor countries.

For example one company caused noticeable damage as UK was mapped by people from Belarus who were unaware about many local intricacies.