Subj : Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make?
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From : LundukeJournal
Date : Thu May 11 2023 05:30:03

Major Open Source Projects: How much money do they actually make?

Date:
Thu, 11 May 2023 04:18:48 GMT

Description:
Comparing the revenue of some of the biggest names in Free & Open Source 
Software.

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Here's a seemingly simple question: Which Open Source projects and 
foundations bring in the most money? And, as a follow on to that... which 
bring in the least ? 

GNOME? KDE? Mozilla? Apache? The Free Software Foundation? 

There are a lot of big names in the open source world... but how much money 
do the most recognizable names in Free and Open Source Software actually earn 
in yearly revenue? 

I wanted to know. So I collected revenue details for 17 major open source 
foundations -- by digging through IRS filings, Annual Reports, and every 
other source of information I could get my hands on. 

Then I stuck them in a spreadsheet and made some fancy-shmancy charts. 

Some of the results were expected and obvious... others I found truly 
surprising. Honestly, some of the results are a gosh darned travesty. 

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