Once upon a time, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> said: > This may have been an anomaly made possible by early .com $, but I'm > pretty sure at one point, companies like VA Research / VA Linux > employed developers who in various cases worked part or full time on > the Linux kernel and other Open Source projects "as their job".
The vast majority of developers of software in a typical Linux distribution are paid to work on it. That's what companies like Red Hat, Canonical, SuSE, and many others do. There's lots of other stuff that's contributed to as a consequence of their job. When I needed software to support DEC Unix features for example (because that's what my company used), I wrote patches and submitted them to OpenSSH, BIND, etc. My company was fine with that (we weren't going to sell software). -- Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net>