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		silentbicycle on Aug 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm Moving To San Francisco, I Need A Job That's a pretty small subset of all open source developers, though.

jlgosse on Aug 6, 2009 [–]

A large number of companies also pay developers to work on Eclipse as well.

In fact, IBM, one of the largest paying contributors to Eclipse, also pays people to work on a boatload of open source stuff. You don't realize until you actually dig into it yourself.

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