← Back to context Comment by n3t 1 month ago Most (some sources say ~80%) Linux contributors are paid by their employer. 3 comments n3t Reply ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago I hope that's true. Do you have a source? n3t 1 month ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.
ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago I hope that's true. Do you have a source? n3t 1 month ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.
n3t 1 month ago "About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012) ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.
ekjhgkejhgk 1 month ago This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.
I hope that's true. Do you have a source?
"About 80% of kernel contributors are paid – by their employer!" -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-buil... (from 2025)
Check out "Most active 5.10 employers" table (it's from 2020) on https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/
"Seventy-five percent of all kernel development is done by developers who are being paid for their work" -- https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/press-release/the-linu... (from 2012)
This is actually a super encouraging thing. I wonder why it doesn't work as well for the Gnu apps.