Comment by pron

Some people are under the impression that the corporate world and open-source are separate, whereas a very significant part of open-source is already corporate. Linux, Chromium, OpenJDK, V8, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tensor Flow, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Redis, and many, many other of the biggest, most influential open source projects are overwhelmingly developed by people paid by for-profit corporations to work on those projects. Getting corporations to fund smaller, more independent, projects might be a good idea, but those two worlds are already just one.