u/zota wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The vast majority of open source projects are entirely volunteer with zero funding. If you say you worked on open source, absolutely no one is going to reflexively assume you meant a Google project.
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Sources please, I don't appreciate defamation by coming out of hibernation, selectively commenting on all my comments and no one elses and attacking me with baseless claims. I'm well known I'm this sub because I'm open about my background and use my real identity, but I also don't respond to people trolling me.
Source: The research is a collaboration between the Core Infrastructure Initiative at the Linux Foundation – now part of The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) formed in August – and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University. via [https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/foss\_developer\_survey\_mostly\_male/](https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/08/foss_developer_survey_mostly_male/)
"A new survey of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) contributors, conducted by the Linux Foundation and academic researchers, reported that 91 per cent of respondents are male, the great majority has full-time paid employment"
"48.7 per cent were paid by their employer specifically for time spent on open source projects and 2.95 per cent received payment from another party"