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by zozbot234
2246 days ago
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The Blender open source project was started entirely from voluntary donations, and it gets very sizeable contributions to this day. The same applies to many other major projects. Even development of the Linux kernel itself and closely-related projects is largely funded via voluntary contributions to the Linux Foundation. |
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Development of the Linux kernel is largely funded by companies paying for developers to work on it (and by paying membership fees to the Linux Foundation to cover professional LF salaries like Linus').