>Volunteer open source has given us the majority of all open source projects
This is a statement that is (I assume) technically true. It's also quite misleading. And it carries through to the discussion of serendipitous and reliance developer models.
Sure, if you count projects on Github, I assume the vast majority aren't clearly worked on by someone paid as a developer to do so. But if you filter by widely-used and commercially-interesting it's a different story.
>Reliant open source is the majority of financed projects by far, and has yielded projects like Homebrew, curl, OpenSSL, Vue.js, rclone, Caddy, and countless others.
OpenSSL, for one, is a terrible example. As came out with Heartbleed, the OpenSSL developers were collecting something like $5K/year in donations.
This is a statement that is (I assume) technically true. It's also quite misleading. And it carries through to the discussion of serendipitous and reliance developer models.
Sure, if you count projects on Github, I assume the vast majority aren't clearly worked on by someone paid as a developer to do so. But if you filter by widely-used and commercially-interesting it's a different story.
>Reliant open source is the majority of financed projects by far, and has yielded projects like Homebrew, curl, OpenSSL, Vue.js, rclone, Caddy, and countless others.
OpenSSL, for one, is a terrible example. As came out with Heartbleed, the OpenSSL developers were collecting something like $5K/year in donations.