> Look at the contributions to any big open source project, and look at who pays the
> maintainers.
If a project becomes important enough then businesses will often fund the top people, but that is one of the reasons the article gives of why developers contribute to open source projects. There have been some open source projects that have been started by businesses, but across all open source projects they are the minority.
The article is about why developers contribute to open source projects without being paid, not why the project exists in the first place or the minority case of people being paid to contribute.
Edited by smf (08/30/13 01:36 PM)
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