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If it appears on a resume, it’s done for notoriety. If it’s fully anonymous and never appears on a resume, then I concede you are right in that case, but I think that’s an extreme minority of cases among the types of projects the thread is discussing.

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> If it appears on a resume, it’s done for notoriety.

There might be such people, but I doubt such projects would be very successful or notorious. Being able to put something on CV does not provide that long lasting gratification needed to develop/maintain software in the long run. If it's about your CV only, then there are probably more effective ways to achieve better returns.

(In my case I don't put my F/OSS on my CV and I don't think I'm "extreme minority")

As a hiring manager, a large fraction (easily greater than 50%) of resumes that I see do list OSS projects and contributions as accomplishments and technical experience.

Maybe I just see an unusual slice of the OSS maintainer world, but it’s very common.

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