With the quality of elementary OS, I thought it required several full time developers to keep up but not knowing how it could make enough money, I even thought it's some rich guy's toy project spending out of pocket money or something but surprised it's run by a few guys with very small revenue and the company's worth seems somehow very small with the talent they got.
Could be a bargain for someone to just hire those guys but of course it means the end of elementary OS but the developers deserve better environment.
> the company's worth seems somehow very small with the talent they got
They started a project on the basis of refusing to compromise (on aesthethic-usability choices), in a niche (desktop Linux) that most users choose trying to escape such refusals by mainstream desktop platforms. They are trying to monetize on a platform (again, Linux) where most people are ideologically bent on producing and consuming software for free. It's like they are actively fighting the platform and the ecosystem at every turn.
The surprise is not how small they are, but how long they've managed to survive on donations.
Could be a bargain for someone to just hire those guys but of course it means the end of elementary OS but the developers deserve better environment.