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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by joshuamorton on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:30PM (#24337639)
The gpl projects are also corporately sponsored, just indirectly.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by nix23 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:11AM (#24339826)
I would not call that "indirectly":

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

and that:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-deve...

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by jcelerier on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:33AM (#24339387)
A fair amount of GPL work is done by researchers in public universities
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by joshuamorton on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:49AM (#24339478)
The same is true of non-gpl work.

Half the linux foundation's funding comes from 6 companies. Not to mention the full time employees paid to work on it. And I find that there's similar patterns in a lot of other widely used gpl software. Similarly, MIT/Apache software gets tons of contributions from non-corp people too.

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