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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