In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything?

[ Thanks to Sakshi Garg for this link. ]

"Berdou interviewed a number of paid and volunteer developers working with the GNOME and KDE projects. Based on these interviews, she presents four working hypotheses:

"Paid developers are more likely to contribute to critical parts of the code base.

"Paid developers are more likely to maintain critical parts of the code base"

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