A better way to look at OSS is like charity. Giving to charity is not something you do to enrich yourself, although you will likely enrich yourself in certain w

A better way to look at OSS is like charity. Giving to charity is not something you do to enrich yourself, although you will likely enrich yourself in certain ways. You don't give to charity so you can get a better job in the future. And the results of giving to a charity might result in profits for corporations: suppose the charity makes a breakthrough in medicine and a large medical research company uses that to leapfrog their R&D. That's a feature, not a bug. We shouldn't discourage people from giving to charity because of these aspects. It's worth noting that many of these companies give back to the OSS they leveraged, and are often the genesis of some of the best OSS software themselves.