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Paying people to work on open source is good actually (jacobian.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Many open source projects are not developed by unpaid volunteers. The Linux kernel, for example, is primarily developed by professionals on paid time. I'm not convinced the Linux kernel development would continue without business contribution. I'm not convinced all open source projects could just continue without any payment.

[–] fuzzzerd 3 points 8 months ago

I think if you look at your average "package" from GitHub, that is published to npm, nuget, or the associated language rep, by and large they're not making any money.

Sure big projects are making money and have paid development teams, but that's not true at the individual library level in many cases.