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by austin-cheney 276 days ago
I don’t think that is correct. VS Code developers and the TypeScript team is paid by MS. Core of React is paid by Meta, or was. Java language is paid by Oracle as is the LiberaSuite and MySQL.

Most of the Linux foundation projects, which includes Node are volunteers. Most of the Apache foundation software is from volunteers. Most NPM packages are from volunteers. OpenSSL is volunteers.

There is also a big difference between the developers who are employees on salary versus those that receive enough donations to work in open source full time.
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watwut 276 days ago
> Linux foundation projects, which includes Node are volunteers.

The survey found that specifically linux code is dominated by people who are paid for it.

> Most of the Apache foundation software is from volunteers.

Large Apache project specifically are backed by companies per Apache rules. Each project must have at least three active backing companies. They contribute the most of the code.

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throw-qqqqq 276 days ago
> The survey found that specifically linux code is dominated by people who are paid for it.

Yes the kernel code, but the Linux Foundation projects (mentioned in the comment you quote) are MUCH more than the kernel.

See the list on https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects

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izacus 276 days ago
Most of those "voluneers" are also developing those projects as part of their paid job in a form of company contribution back to OSS though.
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