Open Source Projects – Open Source Projects That Pay Developers

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Are there any Java open source projects that Pays the developers?

I came across this from a book : Programming Interviews Exposed. Page #25

Are open-source projects preferable?

The vast majority of programming jobs have usually involved
proprietary, closed-source projects, which some programmers find
objectionable. There’s been a small shift in favor of more open
software development, which provides more opportunities for people
like yourself to participate in open-source projects and still be paid
for that participation.

Best Answer

Bounties & Rewards

Many open source projects offer bounties for fixing certain bugs:

Others are sponsored by individual donations or 3rd-parties:

Open-Source Commercial and Non-Commercial Software Positions

Some open-source projects (open-source does not imply free software) are sponsored and managed and they have full-time employees working on these. These could include:

  • RedHat (Linux, some Java-related development like GCJ contributions, past contributions from their members to known open-source projects for internal work, etc...)
  • Sun/Oracle (OpenJDK, MySQL, and many related community projects)
  • Google (many of their open-source libraries have full-time teams, Chromium, Android...)

While this may not why you originally had in mind, they are indeed open-source projects, and they do have people being paid to work on them.

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