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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Are most open-source software developed by hobbyists?

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 31 points 2 days ago

well, most as in numerically, technically yes :D

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a very large corpus of FLOSS software out there serving everything from individual itches to whole industries. Any project that is important to someone's bottom line is likely to have paid developers working on it but often alongside hobbyists.

The project I predominately work on is about 90% paid developers but from lots of different companies and organisations. Practically though the developers don't care about the affiliation of the other developers they work with but the ideas and patches they bring to the project.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

That seems like a better system than say, Godot, who picks and chooses who is allowed to contribute.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

firefox is squarely in the "co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified"

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

very true and as has happened to almost all projects once they get a critical mass of users and presence in the ecosystem.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

100% of the open-source software i contributed to was developed by hobbyists so, using that information, you can infer from only that information that only hobbyists can develop open-source software