Being from Europe I can pitch in here. I am aware of two countries where there’s is a noticeable flow of capital from VCs and angels to entrepreneurs willing to pay people to write open source software, and those are the U.S. and Israel. If you’re outside of those, as an open source developer you have the options to freelance, to bootstrap your own company, or to get hired by a U.S. or Israeli company. There are some exceptions, but you get the idea.

An even worse problem that even the open source community (where thankfully we have some very vocal pro-diversity advocates) completely ignores is the rampant and matter-of-course discrimination of non English speakers, by the way. But that’s a story in itself.