[Bush2000]

No, it's not. Less than half of all FLOSS developers are paid to develop software for the project they are woring on. Yes, most of the large, well-known projects have paid developers, but those comprise a very small minority of projects.

Yes, it is. Take away a paycheck from either closed source or open source developers -- regardless of that source of income -- and you're not going to see people dedicating their time to their projects.

[ShadowAce]

The point is where that paycheck comes from. How many MS developers contribute their free/spare time to coding for MS? Contrast that to how many FLOSS developers are contributing their time and effort in addition to their full-time jobs. The difference is because of the orientation of those developers--FLOSS developers contribute is spite of not being paid by that project. MS developers contribute solely because they are being paid by that project.

That is the difference, and that is my point.