Niels Jorgensen did a study of FreeBSD and found that 43 percent of developers surveyed reported being paid by their employer for their open source development work - suggesting that OSS is far from an amateur, part-time phenomenon. See http://opensource.ucc.ie/isj2001/11-4.htm for more detail if you're interested.
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Niels Jorgensen did a study of FreeBSD and found that 43 percent of developers surveyed reported being paid by their employer for their open source development work - suggesting that OSS is far from an amateur, part-time phenomenon. See http://opensource.ucc.ie/isj2001/11-4.htm for more detail if you're interested.