IMHO, the fundamental problem of these burnout open source projects is that they are "marketed" (deliberately or otherwise) to non-decision makers and people wh

IMHO, the fundamental problem of these burnout open source projects is that they are "marketed" (deliberately or otherwise) to non-decision makers and people who don't control the budgets in companies that need their software. I.e. The lowly developers of some complex hive of a deeply hierarchical group of code monkeys in a for-profit org that's typically not in technology. Red Hat, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all know the value of open source because their big wigs are keenly aware of its value.