[samwillis]

I suspect some of this comes down to how larger donations are made. For Python they have often had people working at companies donating time on their employers books to the development of it.

GVR for example works for Microsoft and has worked at Dropbox and other places, but spends much of his time on Python. So he isn't listed as an employee of the foundation, but at times is full time.

If a company donates employee time they have more influence on the project than donating cash to pay for development.

The fact that Zig had the cash donation to do it this way is brilliant, and probably a better model.