Yep, this happens with alot of open source. Either a big company maintains a project through paid engineers. OR some poor guy gets burnt out because everyone is demanding free changes to some OSS package constantly without providing PR/MRs.
Exactly, which is why I hope Elastic manages to beat Amazon wih this tactic since it then can be a playbook for OSS companies. In general OSS is fantastic whether free or paid and I genuinely want companies like Elastic to succeed. This whole free software thing is stupid and it is sad to see talented devs getting burnt out because people are cheap to pay for software.
