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Big distro. These fat-cat volunteer kernel devs are just trying to keep us down by giving us so much free software that we collapse under the weight of it.


Aren’t a lot of kernel devs paid by large corporations?

Eg, this article.

https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/


Corporate developers are typically paid to solve corporate problems. Sometimes a company will hire a big-name OSS developer and tell them “continue maintaining your project in whatever way you think best”, but that’s by far the exception rather than the norm.




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