Sure, Apple took 4.4BSD/FreeBSD and developed OSX/MacOS without giving back due to licensing.
They forked the KHTML rendering engine from KDE's Konqueror browser and made WebKit, which Google then forked to make Blink.
96.3% of the top million web servers run Linux.
Microsoft bought GitHub and now serves FOSS.
Amazon took Elasticsearch’s open code, named it Amazon Elasticsearch Services, and sell it as part of AWS, making more money than Elastic.
Sun buys MySQL.
IBM buys RedHat.
Android accounts for half of mobile devices.
FireFox, PHP, OpenGL, VirtualBox, LibreOffice.
78% of companies run part or all OSS, up from 42% in 2010.And while there is money behind behind open source software, free software is one of the best arguments against the capitalist claim that 'without coercive incentive, no one will work'.
'Giving without expecting anything back' is the core of the internet and computing in general. It benefits humanity far more than corporations. As capitalism chokes on its own sick, the code lives on. :libretion:
I always found it weird that a former friend who was a huge tech bro was also a very big champion of open source whenever it would come up. Guy once had an argument over coffee with me that corporate private militaries proved that we should turn more things over to corporations and the market, but also he did open source programing a lot without a profit motive
