> For example: It seems ridiculous now, but at one point authors were significantly squeezed by commercial distros offering support and feature work directly to

> For example: It seems ridiculous now, but at one point authors were significantly squeezed by commercial distros offering support and feature work directly to customers for their packages. Something similar was discussed a few weeks ago with respect to procps [0] and the struggles of maintaining Open Source projects. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19936320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19936320