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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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