@mikemcquaid is there a difference here between happening to work for a company and also being a maintainer for some OSS, and being paid by the company to work on said OSS?

e.g., my understanding is that a lot of the Rails core team is paid by either Basecamp or Shopify. (At the very least that has an impact on the team’s ability to distance itself from dhh, e.g. by forking.)

edit: to be clear I don’t think this implies _malice_ but it does potentially mean lesser freedom to make entirely unbiased decisions if the employer’s interests start to conflict with the community’s.