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I bet it's more than 75%. I bet there are plenty of companies that send in patches from anonymous email accounts so as to not give away to their competitors what they are currently working on.

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A further instance of the type of behaviour you discuss: There has been more than a few times where there "just happened to be a new OSS project" or "new patch to $FOO" covering the use cases my bosses were talking about. Without such behaviour by me and mine, we would find ourselves re-implementing perfectly good OSS projects for one little change all the time.

Also, academics are frequently "paid to play" in essence, so the contributions from them should prolly count.

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