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"I realized then that open source isn't free, someone else is just paying for everyone who is not." someone else = contributors everyone who is not = mainly c

• watwut 10y ago
  Major projects has corporate sponsors or academic sponsors. A lot of open source is done and paid for by companies. For that matter, even free for open source hosting services have bills that needs to be paid - by companies (github, google). Linux Torwalds and linux maintenners are paid - which is a good thing btwm
• jdorfman 10y ago
  I agree. That said there are many corporations that do contribute money, developer time, infrastructure, legal, etc. But not enough IMO.
  • GoToRO 10y ago
    "not enough" This is my gut feeling too.