They usually don’t but some do. I’m only cherry picking this because I don’t know much about Big Tech and FOSS. Bootstrap was developed in Twitter, React is maintained by Facebook/Meta, AngularJS was maintained by Google in the past but it’s now discontinued. Google also has Summer of Code. I’m not a Big Tech shill but the larger ones do make some contributions.
They… Usually don’t.
Not a single company I’ve worked for actually makes FOSS contributions to the dependencies they rely upon.
Then you work for shitty little companies. These companies put in millions a year.
Source:
Here’s just one: https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/
I’ve read many times that Linux wouldn’t be where it is today without the commercial funding and code contributions it receives.
https://opensourcefundingsurvey2024.com/
Jackass. It’s not hard to even attempt to look into this shit. But this place is only for circlejerks 🤦♂️
They usually don’t but some do. I’m only cherry picking this because I don’t know much about Big Tech and FOSS. Bootstrap was developed in Twitter, React is maintained by Facebook/Meta, AngularJS was maintained by Google in the past but it’s now discontinued. Google also has Summer of Code. I’m not a Big Tech shill but the larger ones do make some contributions.
Yeah, they do, but it’s still pennies to the dollar, and usually they only do because it benefits them to do so.
Companies using open source must be forced to contribute back fairly