I sort of agree that Eclipse started out that way (mostly paid for by IBM), but I am happy to report that the community has evolved a great deal since those day

I sort of agree that Eclipse started out that way (mostly paid for by IBM), but I am happy to report that the community has evolved a great deal since those days. If you take a look at the Platform UI project, for example, you will see a very diverse project, with a lot of unaffiliated committers. https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform.ui/who https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.platform.ui/wh...