It's crazy to me that open source maintainers offer free support to corporations or governments that they could easily extract money from for the benefit of the project or themselves.
An individual wants a feature and is prepared to pitch in, probably worth the time investment for a maintainer.
The US government wants floating point arithmetic done a certain way, fuck you, pay me.
An individual wants a feature and is prepared to pitch in, probably worth the time investment for a maintainer.
The US government wants floating point arithmetic done a certain way, fuck you, pay me.