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> His main reasons behind this "DDD" policy is that it's the open source model. Developers work on things they care about, when they feel like working and then every hour they spend "working" is a valuable hour of work.

Does this actually apply to employer-sponsored OSS work?

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I meant the model that OSS software gets developed in. That people work on the feature or project they love/want to see succeed/etc rather than what a manager told them to focus on.

It is rarely the case that they'd be paid (by someone outside the project) to work on a particular feature? Companies that sponsor OSS development basically just say "here's a paycheck, go have fun"?

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