> Look at the contributions to any big open source project, and look at who pays the > maintainers. There are notable exceptions like MAME (although it doesn't strictly > meet the definitions of OSI open source or FSF free software), but the vast majority > of contributions to successful open source and free software actually come from big > business.
While that's true, even very heavily business-associated projects (e.g. the compilers: GCC and LLVM/Clang) still started out as private projects. Projects originated purely by business have a generally poor lifespan.
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