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The author should really take a look at who the biggest contributors in many open source projects are, monetary and code involvement. Just because they don't pick up every small project does not mean that open source does not immensely profited and thrived from capitalism.

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In almost all cases, the support of these giant corporations is towards feature-sets that are inherently self-serving. In many cases, they wield too much power and hijack the direction of the opensource projects. For example, there's plenty of optimizations for server-side CPU performance on Linux, often to the detriment of desktop interactive performance (see Con Kolivas' scheduler and his 10+ year long struggle).

> does not mean that open source does not immensely profited and thrived from capitalism

It certainly did not.

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