You're forgetting about their health insurance, retirement, unemployment taxes, etc. I'm sure they get some tax-relief being a non-profit, but still, high end computer scientists are expensive.
Open source projects aren't really volunteer/spare-time/garage efforts anymore. The Mozilla and Apache foundations are pretty big organizations. A lot of projects are also run by for-profit commercial players like Redhat and Canonical.
Open source projects aren't really volunteer/spare-time/garage efforts anymore. The Mozilla and Apache foundations are pretty big organizations. A lot of projects are also run by for-profit commercial players like Redhat and Canonical.