For the love of open source: Why developers work on Linux and open-source software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 10, 2020 6:15 AM EDT
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The myth of the open-source developer is they're unemployed young men coding away in basements. The truth is different..

The Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation (OSSF) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) new survey, Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey, found a significant number of women developers, with the plurality of programmers in their 30s, and the majority are working full-time jobs with an annual average pay rate of $123,000.

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