Comment by pabs3
10 months ago
You would be incorrect, LWN tracks statistics about contributor employers for every Linux kernel release and their latest post about that says that "(None)" (ie unpaid contributions) beat a number of large companies, including RedHat by the lines changed metric, or SUSE by the changesets metric.
Well yes, but the vast majority of changes (~95%, by either changes or lines) seem to be from contributors supported by employers.
Sure, but there is still "someone" contributing unpaid.
Definitely individual can start with their own reason. It is questionable whether they can make contributions which scope would be a quarter of the work including design or even larger.
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