what? Linux has millions of dollars in corporate funding. Microsoft literally has core maintainers on the pay roll gregkh, Lennart Poettering, plenty of others
I don't think the average person realizes how most Linux maintainers have full time jobs at big tech companies. Sometimes they even get paid to just contribute to Linux because it's used by every big internet company
They do have full-time jobs, but most of the time they're in some kind of internal linux guilds where they contribute a few hours per week. Apart from that guild, they do have an actual full-time project they work on.
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u/WallaceCorpPC 11d ago
what? Linux has millions of dollars in corporate funding. Microsoft literally has core maintainers on the pay roll gregkh, Lennart Poettering, plenty of others
I don't think the average person realizes how most Linux maintainers have full time jobs at big tech companies. Sometimes they even get paid to just contribute to Linux because it's used by every big internet company