What profit do developers of large open source libraries and frameworks get?

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Copperfield2015-03-20 19:06:16

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Copperfield, 2015-03-20 19:06:16

Hundreds of hours of development, thousands of commits. And what's the profit?
Pure altruism?

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protven, 2015-03-20
@protven

Wild success with the opposite sex, of course.

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Sergey, 2015-03-20
Protko @Fesor

Sponsors, commercial licenses, support... The larger the open source project, the more ways to make it pay off.

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one pavel, 2015-03-20
@onepavel

an invitation to work in large offices

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Ilya Evseev, 2015-03-21
@IlyaEvseev

1) increasing the professional level and self-esteem,
2) commercial customers and sponsors,
3) a serious plus in the eyes of employers.