[maccard]

> but is that really something that can only happen when one big company/organization is funding the project?

Have you any examples of any large OSS projects that don't have this problem?

> As for Rust, maybe someone could point me in the direction of the one benevolent large company that's backing GCC/G++ or CPython or Ruby?

gcc [0] has a list of maintainers, which features a lot of redhat email addresses. The ruby maintainer is employed by Heroku. CPython is maintained by a RH employee. The linux kernel is mostly comprised of people paid to develop by their employers.

[0] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS

[1MachineElf]

To the parent commenter's credit, none of those companies own the rights to the GCC/CPython/Ruby trademarks like Mozilla does with Rust.

[jpgvm]

PostgreSQL is probably the best example. It's maintained by many people from many different companies.

[maccard]

That's a really good example of the opposite, thanks! I wasn't aware of it!