Open source is EXTREMELY HARMFUL to the non-owning/entrepreneuring class: Big business can built their billion dollar companies on open source, while the developers lose out: Without open source, companies would have to hire more devs to implement solutions, or they would have to pay external devs money for their solutions. This would also foster competition between different solution offerings.
It's very unfortunate that software engineers, especially the good ones able to create libraries used by pretty much everyone, seem to lack the drive to monetize their work and instead accept payment through GitHub stars, likes and prayers.
It's very unfortunate that software engineers, especially the good ones able to create libraries used by pretty much everyone, seem to lack the drive to monetize their work and instead accept payment through GitHub stars, likes and prayers.