[broodbucket]

> It is not unfair, because the majority of "developers contributing to it" are on those company payrolls, 8h a day during a full week.

This is overwhelmingly true now, but it wasn't always.

[pjmlp]

Which is the reason why Linux moved beyond yet another UNIX clone hobby project.

I still remember how it was when I was getting distributions via Walnut Creek CDROMs.

As per Wikipedia, IBM, Compaq and Oracle started contributing in some form around 1998.

I guess we could look at commits history to see when IBM and friends actually started to provide features.