motivation
FYI those open source coders are probably working some kind thabkless job that will age the bills but gives them enough time to pretend to be a big dev firm making main level code contributions.
And other ones are being paid by a big firm to work on FOSS projects because it’s still easier than reproducing something from scratch.
Students and Junior devs alike also contributing to pad their resume and document experience.
Sure but pretending the the majority of contributes are not being paid is just fake. FOSS is big companies paying people to develop.