maemo.org - Talk - My N900 concerns

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Originally Posted by bugelrex (Post 374433)

To put this in context, the word "they' refers to experienced developers with over decade of professional experience (i.e. they have a family, rent, mortgage, expenses and mouths to feed).

Yeah. I know a lot of those who write and/or support open source software in their free time, just for the heck of it. Or just to give something back because they can build on a software which is already there.

Okay, there are also quite a few which get paid by their employers to develop open source software, in some projects those make the majority - especially in the large projects.