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matt4077 on Sept 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Give away your code, but never your time

I think both of your "extremes" are flawed, but for a lack of time I'll just add the big one you missed entirely:

0) Companies funding the full development of large OSS projects. Examples: MySQL, Postgres, nginx, Chrome, Tensorflow, React, (Most of) Linux, Redis etc. etc.

adekok on Sept 11, 2017 [–]

You do realize I said my experience, right? Not "these two examples encompass all possible corporations".

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