https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1408.4978/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28971688urn:hackerpapers:mention:1408.4978:28971688Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:55:48 GMT<p>&gt; where does it stop? Perhaps after giving each open source project 11 cents? That made me curious about the numbers, and I found a paper which says &quot;Daffara estimates that there were 18,000 active open source projects in September 2007 worldwide&quot;[0] which would mean donating about $2000. Another analysis from 2013 calculated that &quot;87% of projects have 5 or fewer committers per year&quot;[1] so if we unreasonably assume that each developer only works on one project, that might mean 5 times as many developers as projects, so $10,000 to donate 11 cents to every open source developer. [0]…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1408.4978/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE