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I don't know if SAP contributes but Microsoft pays for C#, VSCode, and other open source projects. And further they support open source by providing github, git

• pessimizer 5y ago
  The suggestion wasn't that the government should only buy from companies that have done or are doing some open source, the suggestion was that the government only finance FOSS. Also, nobody told them to buy Github. It wasn't a charitable acquisition.
• int_19h 5y ago
  Microsoft also pays salary for several people who are core Python contributors, and sponsor PSF and PyCon. (I'm sure there are similar arrangements for other projects - that's just the stuff I'm familiar with.) However, Python is an example of a large and prominent OSS product. Generally speaking, stuff like that doesn't struggle to find sponsors. But there are all those countless small OSS projects that get used by for-profit companies without any financial support for their maintenance. There needs to be some arrangement to accommodate those, as well.
• einpoklum 5y ago
  > I don't know if SAP contributes but Microsoft pays for C# That barely counts, as C# is very Windows-centric AFAIK.