Posted by: Per Abrahamsen
on January 07, 2004 01:10 AM
The most active developers (measured in commits) in the projects you mention tend to be the ones who has it as their main job, not surprisingly.
However, lots of additional contributions come from people who has a lot of flexibility on how they achieve their main job, and use that flexibility to help develop on the tools they use in their main job.
All the projects you mentioned are tools that are mostly used profesionally. If you work for a web hotel, contributing to apache comes naturally. Even if your job description is keeping the hotel running smoothly rather than developing software.
It is not worth much (being self-selected and all), but the <A HREF="http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/" TITLE="infonomics.nl">FLOSS survey</a infonomics.nl> has approximately half the respondants being paid for their free software work.
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Posted by: Per Abrahamsen on January 07, 2004 01:10 AMHowever, lots of additional contributions come from people who has a lot of flexibility on how they achieve their main job, and use that flexibility to help develop on the tools they use in their main job.
All the projects you mentioned are tools that are mostly used profesionally. If you work for a web hotel, contributing to apache comes naturally. Even if your job description is keeping the hotel running smoothly rather than developing software.
It is not worth much (being self-selected and all), but the <A HREF="http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/" TITLE="infonomics.nl">FLOSS survey</a infonomics.nl> has approximately half the respondants being paid for their free software work.
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