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As I see itAs I see itPosted Aug 2, 2009 12:44 UTC (Sun) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)In reply to: As I see it by nix Parent article: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd
Let's consider the word "mostly". Is it true that over 50 % of OSS contributors are paid programmers now? I definitely have missed that change. I thought most of us were just a freelance army...
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As I see it Posted Aug 2, 2009 19:55 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's been true for many years that >>50% of code is written by people
employed to do free software development. Whether >50% of *developers* are paid for it is, as you point out, a somewhat different matter: you'd expect things to take longer to reach that point.
As I see it Posted Aug 2, 2009 23:06 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
> It's been true for many years that >>50% of code is written by people
Again; your source?
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