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> > Plenty of FOSS is well funded > For example?

Is that a serious question? Ok...

I heard Google pays its employers quite well. Plenty of FOSS is developed by Google, for example large parts of Chrome. I think Linus Torvalds gets a reasonable salary. So do many other kernel hackers - payed by all kinds of companies. Red Hat seems to be doing well, they have plenty of people working in all kinds of FOSS projects. I already mentioned OpenSSL. React is developed mostly by Facebook employers. I guess Facebook pays good salaries.



You have to be Linus? Dang.

That doesn't scale…


> You have to be Linus?

No.




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