[wmf]

From a global perspective it looks pretty fair that some company uses a lot of open source software and also contributes a lot. But it doesn't get anyone paid. If you're toiling away unpaid on Redis or MongoDB or whatever, the fact that Google gave the world k8s does not help you.

[merb]

> the fact that Google gave the world k8s does not help you.

so google should give everything away AND also need to pay to every open source project, besides that smaller player don't?

sorry the world does not work like that. open source means giving and taking, not only taking. google might not be an angel, however restricting them to pay - OPEN SOURCE, non restrictive work - is just silly.

[mr_toad]

> Toiling away unpaid

I’d hazard a guess that even the most prolific open source individual contributors use more open source software written by others than they contribute to.

Nobody individually, could really ‘pull their weight’ with respect to contributing back to the community. I doubt most corporations could feasibly contribute back more software than they use, even if they tried.