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by YetAnotherNick 170 days ago
Examples? If you are going to say something like linux, almost every developer gets paid to contribute to linux(I remember 95% commits have company attribution). Same with postgres etc.
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They are paid, but the end used doesn't pay.
End user are corporate linux users and they pay for maintenance? Perhaps you mean all the end users doesn't pay.
They don't pay to the full group of Linux devs, they pay to companies like redhat, which does not represent the Linux kernel dev community.