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>The ^community^ here are people like you - those who also have to pay bills but contribute anyways

In principle, yes. In practice, most of the "community" is paid developers for companies like RedHat. So while they do have to pay the bills, they do so by those FOSS contributions.

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True. I recognize that my statement was a bit simplistic.

That said, in the context of what the OP was saying, unfortunately, this is a chicken-and-egg situation. For someone, like the OP, who would like to get paid to do OSS, they'd need to have a reasonably active OSS presence prior to being hired at places like Red Hat. Which is another aspect of my original point of contributing to FLOSS being the pursuit of the privileged.

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