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.
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.
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 🤦♂️