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-do their employers recognize their effort and give hours to the side projects?
-they mostly contractors so can arrange their time accordingly?
-donations?
-or is it mostly a hobby done out of passion?
Linux Kernel
maybe less of a bus factor now with OSH approaching feature/speed parity and having more maintainers https://www.oilshell.org/
> It is stable and in use by distinguished frameworks and tools such as Mockito, Hibernate , Jackson, Google's Bazel build system and many others. Byte Buddy is also used by a large number of commercial products to great result. It is currently downloaded over 75 million times a year.
Did you know tools like uname [1] and cat [2] in GNU coreutils have essentially only had two contributors in the past decade?
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor... [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor...