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Linux development has been the same way. Big donations in development time from IBM and Google make up most of the project.

It seems to be the way of things, to use a close fork of a corporate funded, but mostly open, project.

But to combat this, tech industry needs to learn that aside from security and bug fixes, updates are unnecessary. New hardware means needing new drivers, and introducing possible semantic bugs in the pipeline. It kills past charity software work. Fast changing languages have the same issue. Most lang's are getting stuck in single compiler territory.