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I'm genuinely interested in examples of great projects from those funding sources.

When I think about OSS databases for example I can't think of any widely used ones that don't have at least one commercial entity that provides maintenance and support which funds development.

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There's difference between a) having a big corporate backer for an open-source project vs b) a company and business built around that open-source project.

The incentives and existential threats towards the project are completely different.

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