@zverik and for historically correctness, the myth of the "pure" OSM dev environment, is just that, a myth.
Major parts (if not a majority) of central OSM software infrastructure was originally written by people paid to do so, typically by their then employers. You can only "lose" something if it was yours to start with.
@simon Exactly! I mentioned this on my russian-lang channel. Cloudmade would be the most obvious example, plus most key things were paid for, e.g. the redaction bot.