The issue here is not the company but the fact that the owners of the original library did not figure out how to “disown” the library. Open sourcing something

The issue here is not the company but the fact that the owners of the original library did not figure out how to “disown” the library. Open sourcing something is naturally more expensive than not. It’s seldom the case that impact to the community triggers contributions that outweigh that cost. The fallacy we hold is that companies will prop up software that is open source for everyone to use despite the lacking community contribution. We as engineers should push ourselves to contribute when we find issues - rather than simply create tickets that represent work were want to have done for free. This is how open source software dies. There is a minority that does this.