Many open source contributors are employed by big tech. A lot of modern open source was born out of proprietary offerings. (for example, AJAX, which built the f

Many open source contributors are employed by big tech. A lot of modern open source was born out of proprietary offerings. (for example, AJAX, which built the foundation for modern Javascript apps was built for Outlook Web) To say nothing of the fact that Microsoft owns Github and NPM. An entire class of modern applications, for better or worse, came out of Github's Electron.