Are there any Java open source projects that Pays the developers?I came across this from a book : Programming Interviews Exposed.   Page #25Are open-source projects preferable? The vast majority of programming jobs have usually involved  proprietary, closed-source projects, which some programmers find  objectionable. Theres been a small shift in favor of more open  software development, which provides more opportunities for people  like yourself to participate in open-source projects and still be paid  for that participation.
Open source Projects which pays the developers?
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Bounties & RewardsMany open source projects offer bounties for fixing certain bugs:Chromium's Vulnerability Reward Program (sponsored by Google, and expanded several times)Ubuntu (sponsored by Canonical) (appears to be closed now)Others are sponsored by individual donations or 3rd-parties:The FOSS FactoryOpen-Source Commercial and Non-Commercial Software PositionsSome open-source projects (open-source does not imply free software) are sponsored and managed and they have full-time employees working on these. These could include:RedHat (Linux, some Java-related development like GCJ contributions, past contributions from their members to known open-source projects for internal work, etc...)Sun/Oracle (OpenJDK, MySQL, and many related community projects)Google (many of their open-source libraries have full-time teams, Chromium, Android...)While this may not why you originally had in mind, they are indeed open-source projects, and they do have people being paid to work on them.