What kills me is that the US Gov does pay for a fair amount of work (the military loved funding gcc for instance) I'd also point out that we've (google) spent

What kills me is that the US Gov does pay for a fair amount of work (the military loved funding gcc for instance) I'd also point out that we've (google) spent scads of money on oss software development , orgs and the rest at Google. The author really didn't research before writing the article.