Every now and then I see someone ask how much of an impact open-source work can really have on employment. I thought I'd compile a list as I came across people for whom open-source proved not only a reason, but the primary reason they now receive a paycheck.
In no particular order:
- Mitch Garnaat - Amazon (boto)
- Charles Nutter - Sun, Engine Yard, Red Hat (JRuby)
- Thomas Enebo - Sun, Engine Yard, Red Hat (JRuby)
- Nick Sieger - Sun, Engine Yard (JRuby)
- Ola Bini - ThoughtWorks (JRuby)
- David Recordon - Facebook (OpenID)
- Guido van Rossum - Google, Dropbox (Python)
- Jordan K. Hubbard - Apple (FreeBSD)
- James Cammarata - AnsibleWorks (Cobbler)
- Karanbir Singh - Red Hat (CentOS)
- Johnny Hughes Jr - Red Hat (CentOS)
- Jim Perrin - Red Hat (CentOS)
- Fabian Arrotin - Red Hat (CentOS)
- Ben Mills - Balanced (balanced-ruby, balanced-ios, balanced-android)
- Mike Pall - corporate sponsorship (LuaJIT)
- Eric Holscher - Gittip (Read the Docs)
- Tobi Oetiker - corporate sponsorship, consulting (RRDtool, MRTG)
- Alex Martelli - Google (Python)
- Chris DiBona - Google (Slashdot, Open Sources)
- Junio Hamano - Google (Git)
- Jeremy Allison - HP, Google (Samba)
- Greg Stein - Google, unknown (Apache Software Foundation, Python, Subversion)
- Joshua Bloch - Google (Java, Effective Java)
- David Saff - Google (JUnit)
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss - Heroku (Django)
- Max Howell - Apple (Homebrew)