This is the fate that many OSS business models are gravitating to - developers have no expectation to pay for OSS libraries which drives the price towards free

This is the fate that many OSS business models are gravitating to - developers have no expectation to pay for OSS libraries which drives the price towards free which can only be made back from large volume to sponsor indirect commercial business models. However since there's an expectation to pay for hosting which requires a direct payment connection via a credit card they're easily able to extract sustainable income without needing to pay for developing the OSS software they're hosting. So most of the profits from OSS will be around hosting which due to economies of scale and brand confidence will flow to large cloud vendors controlled by a handful of tech conglomerates. The commercial value derived from OSS Software will shift away from authors to big Tech Co's which is also how they're able to sponsor development of a lot of paid OSS libraries around their hosting Services themselves.