[OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Puttick
<chris.puttick at thehumanjourney.net> wrote:
> ----- "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
>> I can't think of any successful (wide adoption, long-term
>> sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love.
>
> Well, maybe Bacula?

Another one is GRASS GIS (out of governmental contracts since 1996):
  http://grass.osgeo.org/devel/grasshist.html
..if 14 years already count :) There is no continuous funding agency.
Some developers may be allowed to use work time when programming.

For other project candidates, see also
 Open Source GIS History
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History

Markus