this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure a lot of open source software is volunteer based and unpaid.
There might be cases where orgs will lend developers to work on a project, but with the org's interests in mind, so if the patch isn't in their interest, then those devs won't look at it.