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by master_crab 653 days ago
This is why Amazon, Red Hat and Google all can justify to employ hundreds of engineers all contributing to a common product. Amazon can work on security functionality with no risk that Red Hat will veto it because it threatens its revenue stream. And while none of the top kernel developers have made billions from their important work, they still earn well, and all the mentioned companies have grown to become billion dollar companies.

This can't be stressed enough. OSS does monetarily work for the developers too. FAANGs love paying top dollar for OSS maintainers.