@wakingrufus @HerraBRE you'll find @schestowitz is also a good person to follow re: benefits & drawbacks of companies sponsoring open source projects.
I regularly see him pointing out for example that Jim Zemlin (the chap who heads up the Linux Foundation) draws a bigger salary than the one allocated for Linus Torvalds, yet he doesn't even use GNU/Linux (let alone contribute code for it!)