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by AstralStorm 3309 days ago
Moreover, many critical projects are already done by FSF or Apache Foundation, which are non-profit. Other by RedHat, IBM, Google or Oracle, which already monetize them.

Some were done in a "scratch an itch" fashion and author is not interested in maintenance.

Some are research work where a given university (and not the author) would have to draft a contract for anything monetary.