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Linux?
by randomNumber7 2y ago
Linux?
- TylerE 2y agoLinux is massively funded by companies like IBM and Red Hat. The Linux Foundation receives over $15m in corporate funding.
- TheRealPomax 2y agoNote that $15 million is nowhere near enough to pay the number of employees who work on Firefox. As a for-profit (unlike the foundation), Mozilla the corporation has to pay folks market rates, and if you're paying an employee in the US, you're paying that same amount on top as taxes, insurance, benefits, etc. etc. so $15 million gets you a few dozen people at most. Mozilla employs a few hundred. So you'll have to add a zero to that number before it's in the same ballpark (e.g. wikipedia would be a good example).
- TylerE 2y agoThe Linux Foundation basically exists to pay Linus. Now add the billions companies like Red Hat pay their employees to work on Linux dev.