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pas on Sept 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Docs in a clean-room browser

None of those (GNU, Apache, rPi) ever bought anything, they get projects donated to them, but even then they lack any real resources to invest into such huge projects.

dmitriid on Sept 20, 2021 [–]

And for a while Apache was where projects went to die.

Thankfully, there are more active and growing projects now.

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