Long term, its best to seek alternative means of funding, and reduce dependence on them. I don't think a commercial for-profit company should be on the hook to

Long term, its best to seek alternative means of funding, and reduce dependence on them. I don't think a commercial for-profit company should be on the hook to subsidize free software. The bottom line here is that the entity paying developers for their time has a very important say in what code they're going to work on.