waterytowers
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Most people are not developers. Of the developers using open source I would say a significant amount will be contributing back to open source projects. I have done this for numerous open source projects I have used when I found a bug or missing feature. Did I get paid for this work? My employer pays me to get my work done so indirectly yes. But I would do the same for any personal project that had the same blocker. The issue is most users don't have the skills required to contribute source code fixes or improvements.