Without doing research, but the Linux Foundation is also the parent of the CNCF, the foundation that funds Kubernetes and many adjacent projects. I can imagine that they get a lot more money as there are probably more developers handling CNCF projects than the Linux Kernel.

im probably missing like one or two

commit. Lol

How does that get around paying? You don’t pay for the clients but their servers.

Or just another user agent. Those things update so frequently, it’s likely just some analytics that checks user agent.

The biggest thing that did it for me was who runs Nord? Not business entities but the people.

Protons leadership is out in the open with their names (fwiw their CEO is even on the Higgs paper, lol), but Nord has a very intransparent structure.