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MS and Amazon own and run Rust, this isn’t surprising.

They contribute to it; I don’t think it’s fair to say they own it? It’s certainly nothing like Swift or Go for example.

I guess they pay the salaries of key contributors, and certainly have some influence via their work.

Were they paying those salaries before or after those people became key contributors?

I do not know the answer (in this case) and believe this makes a notable difference.

Mostly later, as they got laid off from Mozzilla.

However it is naive to think Big corps don't have an influence on it.