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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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ranguna
170 days ago
They are paid, but the end used doesn't pay.
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YetAnotherNick
170 days ago
End user are corporate linux users and they pay for maintenance? Perhaps you mean all the end users doesn't pay.
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ranguna
159 days ago
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.
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