Comment by gurrone

In 2019 someone from Elastic also tried to highlight the issue and various models at the market right now in a talk https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2019-2463-open_source_as_a_bus... My main take away was "it's complicated".

Sad story is that in many cases the biz paying for interesting contributions is questionable (Googel, Facebook et al).