They're not in conflict, per se, and they are indeed both important - but progress towards one of these goals has the advantage of serving the goals of megacorp

They're not in conflict, per se, and they are indeed both important - but progress towards one of these goals has the advantage of serving the goals of megacorps, while the other one does not. FWIW, I work as an open source developer on a strategic "infrastructure" project that my employer funds because having an open source base platform serves their commercial interests - and I'm very much okay with this, it absolutely is a good thing for them to be contributing to, but at the end of the day we're also a proprietary software firm. I'd just like to see more work go towards figuring out how to fund developers whose projects aren't of strategic interest to proprietary software companies than articles that keep making the assumption that all important open source software is libraries or utility software that ultimately would line up nicely with corporate interests.