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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by pabs3 on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:42AM (#46144503)
You would be incorrect, LWN tracks statistics about contributor employers for every Linux kernel release and their latest post about that says that "(None)" (ie unpaid contributions) beat a number of large companies, including RedHat by the lines changed metric, or SUSE by the changesets metric.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046966/f957408bbdd4d388/

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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by foota on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:48AM (#46144530)
Well yes, but the vast majority of changes (~95%, by either changes or lines) seem to be from contributors supported by employers.
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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by pabs3 on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:49AM (#46144538)
Sure, but there is still "someone" contributing unpaid.
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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by heartsavior on Thursday December 04, 2025 @11:55PM (#46156968)
Definitely individual can start with their own reason. It is questionable whether they can make contributions which scope would be a quarter of the work including design or even larger.
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