In that case project selection is important. Unpaid work towards a project who's...

cpursley · on Aug 17, 2013

This is a very narrow perspective.

Hacking on open source does increase the education improvement for low income children. Example: Poor kids in Africa now have android phones and have access to open source education materials made possible via open source web technologies.

jiggy2011 · on Aug 17, 2013

Android is developed mainly by paid engineers, not people giving their time as "civic duty".

cpursley · on Aug 18, 2013

What is Android based on? Linux.

pmh · on Aug 18, 2013

Linux kernel development is also primarily[1] done by paid engineers

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012...

pjmlp · on Aug 18, 2013

Linux wouldn't be where it is today without the work of full time engineers paid to work on it.