Historically that rarely happens because industrial equipment is/was generally too expensive for the average worker to purchase on their own, plus workers usually have a budget of roughly 0 to buy extra tools, especially expensive ones.
But to give you an example, also roughly 0 companies made developers use Linux and still many developers choose it, so bottom up improvements happen in a decent chunk of cases. Nobody paid for PostgreSQL promotion. Or Python, etc.
But to give you an example, also roughly 0 companies made developers use Linux and still many developers choose it, so bottom up improvements happen in a decent chunk of cases. Nobody paid for PostgreSQL promotion. Or Python, etc.