> paying for it at their own expense valve would recoup the cost from a bigger customer base, as well as paying it as insurance against windows/microsoft targe

> paying for it at their own expense valve would recoup the cost from a bigger customer base, as well as paying it as insurance against windows/microsoft targeting them as an existential threat. It's cheap for what they're getting. And iirc, it being open source means the foundation could be built upon by others if they do decide to call it quits.