Red Hat (my employer currently) is typically in the same boat here and it drives me crazy how people don't think about that before criticizing.
People love to say, "Red Hat couldn't exist without <project>" which is true, but what they don't realize is that a ton (sometimes all) of the development of that upstream project is done by Red Hat employees. Without that a lot of projects may not even exist.
There are no doubt "open source" companies that take more than they give, but it's a little more nuanced and complicated than people make it out to be.
Red Hat (my employer currently) is typically in the same boat here and it drives me crazy how people don't think about that before criticizing.
People love to say, "Red Hat couldn't exist without <project>" which is true, but what they don't realize is that a ton (sometimes all) of the development of that upstream project is done by Red Hat employees. Without that a lot of projects may not even exist.
There are no doubt "open source" companies that take more than they give, but it's a little more nuanced and complicated than people make it out to be.