Replying to @Di4na@hachyderm.io
@Di4na I just read the linked blog post, and while it's generally spot on, I disagree with some of the logical reasoning it contains. I am genuinely interested in having the answer to the question "How much of FOSS from proprietary code bases is maintained by unpaid developers?" but as far as I am aware, we still have no idea. This is not something that we can derive from data on how many FOSS maintainers are unpaid and how much FOSS there is in proprietary code bases, because most of the *critical* subset of FOSS could still be maintained by paid maintainers (although we at least know from anecdotal evidence that this is not always the case). So if anyone has references that could help answer this question more accurately, I'd be really eager to read them.