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And yet fuck all people do. Ever.

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If you’re random Joe Schmoe who happens to need a database, I don’t expect you to contribute. But when you’re of the largest tech firms in the world…

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People, maybe. Corporations though? They absolutely contribute:

https://lwn.net/Articles/915435/

Oracle, AMD, Google, Intel are all well represented.

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Absolutely not true. I know this is just my experience, but I’ve worked with plenty of devs who’ve contributed prs and/or donations back to OSS projects in the past, and all my former employers have opensourced at least some of their software

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