I'm the lead web developer for a prominent non-profit educational foundation, and we have been using Drupal since version 4.7. It's been my good fortune to work with and meet many prominent Drupal developers. Referring to another commenter here, while I haven't met Karolly personally, He is well-known and respected as one of the core developers.
The point I'd like to make is that, in a sense, I'm the one funding Drupal.
And that group over there.... and that other group there... We pay developers (rather handsomely at that) to help us get our own sites in order. In turn, the work that gets done for us usually gets pushed back to the community.
Maybe the best example is SonyBMG. They employ (or did the last I heard) a very prominent drupal developer whose work is probably on every Drupal site out there.
Your theory is entertaining, but in the end wildly misses the mark.
I'm the lead web developer for a prominent non-profit educational foundation, and we have been using Drupal since version 4.7. It's been my good fortune to work with and meet many prominent Drupal developers. Referring to another commenter here, while I haven't met Karolly personally, He is well-known and respected as one of the core developers.
The point I'd like to make is that, in a sense, I'm the one funding Drupal.
And that group over there.... and that other group there... We pay developers (rather handsomely at that) to help us get our own sites in order. In turn, the work that gets done for us usually gets pushed back to the community.
Maybe the best example is SonyBMG. They employ (or did the last I heard) a very prominent drupal developer whose work is probably on every Drupal site out there.
Your theory is entertaining, but in the end wildly misses the mark.