I’m so tired of the capitalist argument that an open source project cannot be successful because it’s based on nonprofit or donations instead of vc funding and corporates.
Some people seem to actually believe in this narrative that Linux, Mozilla products and the Internet itself are all alive solely because of for-profit industries while forgetting that the actual people, inventors, universities and organisations do exist in this world. Also the contributing factors by companies do not nullify the brilliance of the original project. FFS, it is not all because of the money.
@rolle
I am not sure I would include Linux in it, given that kernel work is really a lot of corporate work.
#OpenCV I consider a better example. A lot of academia goes into it and helps to foster a full ecosystem that is dependend on it. Yes, there are plenty of sponsors like Intel, but in its core it has been driven by academics for a long time.
And there are plenty of other ubiquous libraries. Maybe even products like #QGIS #openssl sadly is too, being neglected by funding for too long.