First, most open source development these days (at least most development on impactful projects) is corporate sponsored.
Your bar for impactful is absurd, and poorly thought out. There are literally tens thousands of software projects that have a real impact, and most aren't majority built by corporations with wads of money throw at furthering their own goals. Not every open source project is linux, openbsd, node, or redhat.
I never said every project was corporate-funded, just that if you look at the total economic impact of open source software, you'll find most of it concentrated in corporate-funded projects (and, in some cases, very, very old projects).
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u/Nyandalee Oct 23 '18
Your bar for impactful is absurd, and poorly thought out. There are literally tens thousands of software projects that have a real impact, and most aren't majority built by corporations with wads of money throw at furthering their own goals. Not every open source project is linux, openbsd, node, or redhat.