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I think if you look a bit deeper, all product lines from said trillion dollor company rely on open source to some degree. They should be spending hundreds of millions in sponsorship of OS projects. They should put the maintainers on their payroll. Not even reporting to a manager, just pay them a salary for their OS work.


I have a feeling that if they do this, the economy would be hurt (somehow).

None of us want the economy to be hurt, right?


That's what's going to happen when these corporations extract the last value from OSS and all the maintainers give up, so..




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