In what other industry do skilled professionals volunteer their time to work for other for profit companies in their free time?
It's certainly common enough to volunteer professional skill for charity, but I can't think off the top of my head of an analog in another industry to the frequently-seen case in software of a gainfully employed, good developer giving his free labor to a commercial project like Chrome, MySql, etc.
In what other industry do skilled professionals volunteer their time to work for other for profit companies in their free time?
It's certainly common enough to volunteer professional skill for charity, but I can't think off the top of my head of an analog in another industry to the frequently-seen case in software of a gainfully employed, good developer giving his free labor to a commercial project like Chrome, MySql, etc.