> How much do you think the Debian non-profit makes per year? What about ArchLinux? These are distributions. Their main role is to package upstream software. T

> How much do you think the Debian non-profit makes per year? What about ArchLinux? These are distributions. Their main role is to package upstream software. That is different from actually writing an entire OS. You should compare to however much Microsoft pays all of the developers that work on the different components of Windows. > How many full time developers are paid by the Linux Foundation? > > It's funny, their budget is much smaller than firefox That's because the vast majority of Linux development is not done by employees of the Linux Foundation. Only a few top-level maintainers, including Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H, are employed by the Linux Foundation. Most Linux code these days is written by people employed by companies like Intel, Huawei, Google, Red Hat, NXP, Facebook, etc. See https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/ for example. You would do good by reading a bit before saying things online.