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by pabs3 2074 days ago
Does AWS have a policy of directly funding existing upstream developers/maintainers of projects you are using?
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TimJRobinson 2074 days ago
On my old team, AWS RoboMaker they do. Contributed a lot of money and developers to ROS2 to make it a solid robotics platform.
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29athrowaway 2074 days ago
Given the massive amount of revenue they're making off Linux, they should be at list platinum tier Linux Foundation members, but their logo is nowhere to be seen here...

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

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pabs3 2074 days ago
Their strategy for Linux appears to be to contribute code upstream rather than contributing money, according to linux.git's MAINTAINERS and `git log --author=amazon.com`. Also its not like the Linux foundation funds Linux development in general, apart from Linus and possibly similar folks.
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