>> corporations will throw money at developers who work on it, but by and large, FOSS is done by unpaid people Money thrown by corporations is what separates s

>> corporations will throw money at developers who work on it, but by and large, FOSS is done by unpaid people Money thrown by corporations is what separates successful projects, like Linux, or Apache Spark, or Postgres from niche things that no one knows or care about. Another common scenario is big corpo developing software for internal use, and then open sourcing it, so that volunteers can do maintenance (e.g. Kubernetes)