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by logicchains 2523 days ago
A community funded project could end up with someone like Linus Torvalds or Fabrice Bellard working on it, whereas a company like AutoDesk wouldn't pay enough to hire someone of that calibre.
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bluedino 2523 days ago
Don't those people work on things because they want to and not because the community pays them?

There are plenty of high-caliber developers working on commercial products

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