| Here's one example: > By studying the Linux Kernel, we document that commercial participation outweighs volunteer participation substantially https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.17240ab... Also, empirically, many of the most popular open source projects are published by commercial companies, who hire developers to maintain them. If you review the commit history for these projects, you will see that many of them are, unsurprisingly, employees. https://airtable.com/appiS6H4nkeXdyO89/shrATIy7RIOheo3gF/tbl... There is inevitable overlap of commercial activity with popular open source software. Either it was a commercial piece of software to begin with, or because it is popular, it now has commercial value and garners commercial attention. Something like React falls into the former, and something like Linux falls into the latter. There's a lot of community open source software too, but it trends towards smaller hobby projects with few users. |