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FYI those open source coders are probably working some kind thankless job that will pay the bills but gives them enough time to pretend to be a big dev firm making main level code contributions.
And other ones are being paid by a big firm to work on FOSS projects because it's still easier than reproducing something from scratch.
Students and Junior devs alike also contributing to pad their resume and document experience.
Sure but pretending the the majority of contributes are not being paid is just fake. FOSS is big companies paying people to develop.
Is that not somewhat the point though? They want to be doing meaningful work and they're so motivated to do meaningful work they'll sit after a day of work and chip out more code just so they can do something meaningful to them.
No lots of open source coders are getting paid. Linux and lots of FOSS is so far past the coder working in their spare time.