Hisham on Nostr: A long time ago (say 20-25 yrs) my perception of FOSS was that it was largely written ...
A long time ago (say 20-25 yrs) my perception of FOSS was that it was largely written by a "loosely knit group" of individual volunteers (like me). Years passed and we started to see stats like "80% of commits in the Linux kernel are from big corporations" and we got that "Linux is serious business now!" vibe.
Then we started seeing projects like Clang and the whole CNCF ecosystem which are FOSS projects primarily made/controlled by companies.
Which large projects are still volunteer-driven?
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