Originally posted by ezst036
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Taking your examples one by one:
Blender makes money from corporate and individual donations and pays some of their developers from that.
As a whole, Blender makes about 2 million dollars a year, not a lot of money for a project that has been around for 20 years and supposedly is widely used. In fact, according to their latest report they actually lost sponsorship and were looking for ways to impove their cash flow.
Intel can afford to pay their Linux developers well because they basically print money with all the hardware they sell.
Microsoft sells closed source software and services and has the cash to pay Linux developers.
Valve sells closed source games and has the cash to pay Linux developers.
Canonical sells a lot of services and partners with many companies but in terms of profits, they are not making a lit of money.
Regardless, this is about why AMD just doesn't release a closed source driver that supports HDMI 2.1 and call it a day?
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