Comment by etra0

> The ones who are responsible and doing the heavy lifting and taking the heat when things break are the often unpaid maintainers.

Only 13.3% of all changesets are from people that are either unemployed or their job is unknown [1].

Even greg k-h said that most of the development is backed by big companies so the argument of 'poor unpaid maintainers' doesn't go too far.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1004998/