Linux, Chromium and V8, Java, .NET, and Go, and most other large open source projects these days are developed by for-profit corporations, none of them do it ou

Linux, Chromium and V8, Java, .NET, and Go, and most other large open source projects these days are developed by for-profit corporations, none of them do it out of kindness. Frankly, if corporations were to bestow gifts worth hundreds of millions of dollars on society, I'd rather those gifts not be free software that is largely enjoyed by other for-profit corporations.