In the early 1990s, when Linux started, and earlier, a lot of what would now call open source, was built by hobbyists: people with some extra time and an urge to write software. You only needed a computer, some time, and a willingness to try and to learn. Since then, much open source is developed by employees, though I feel still not the majority. Big projects, like Linux, have more people getting paid to work on them.
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Lars Wirzenius
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