[delfinom]

Because a lot of niche OSS has very little commercial value to even try and be revenue neutral.

Even take ReactOS, why in the world would a org use it when you could just license Windows properly with PCs pre built and have the accountants depreciate them into taxes as they are capital equipment.

If someone needs an old Windows kernel for compat, they'll just keep using that old Windows version they have on a box and not waste engineering labor to migrate it.

Combining a bunch of projects like that under a halfway house increases revenue but does not mean it will be revenue neutral. It'll still be in the red.

End of the day, there are reasons why some OSS stays completely free while others have commerical and free operations ran in parallel. Either it can bring in money or it can't.