I liked that analogy to paying a law firm. Most of these companies spend more on greenhouse services to keep plants in their offices than they spend supporting

I liked that analogy to paying a law firm. Most of these companies spend more on greenhouse services to keep plants in their offices than they spend supporting the F/LOSS stuff that they built their product around. That's how it should be viewed. The Faangs probably have on the order of 100m boxes running Linux etc. It would be totally reasonable to expect they would pay someone $1/year/box to help maintain all the F/LOSS in there.