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> It is not unfair, because the majority of "developers contributing to it" are on those company payrolls, 8h a day during a full week. This is overwhelmingly
by broodbucket 8y ago
> It is not unfair, because the majority of "developers contributing to it" are on those company payrolls, 8h a day during a full week.
This is overwhelmingly true now, but it wasn't always.
- pjmlp 8y agoWhich is the reason why Linux moved beyond yet another UNIX clone hobby project. I still remember how it was when I was getting distributions via Walnut Creek CDROMs. As per Wikipedia, IBM, Compaq and Oracle started contributing in some form around 1998. I guess we could look at commits history to see when IBM and friends actually started to provide features.