Well this somehow reflects what I am seeing for last 20 years. Hobby or just passion of open source is fueling the industry to forge massive profits while on o

Well this somehow reflects what I am seeing for last 20 years. Hobby or just passion of open source is fueling the industry to forge massive profits while on other side provide peanuts for authors, far less than if they were their employees (or lets rather say: 0). I was working on multiple close source projects for different companies that were avoiding anything GPL, searching for permissive replacements and in never giving back anything - not even bug fixes. Like openssl[1]. Actually even GPL is not a protection here, with sources given away they become almost a manual how to re-implement it which is far simpler than making it from scratch (oh and yes, people are doing that without copy pasting). What open source has accomplished was for sure making technology more available, but on the other side, to name just a few: - lowered expenses of companies on buying software, especially on various SaaS companies that dont distribute software - keeping the need for experienced developers and vages down while on the other side raised paychecks of system administrators and system integrators - creating a viability to hire anyone as a developer while on the other side driving anything complex out of industry as companies were avoiding doing projects where complex knowledge is needed (I am not talking about top of gauss curve companies) - lowering a quality of software - putting together lego blocks and if they dont fit writing a little glue is hardly ever as efficient as writing tool for problem solving dedicated to the problem. Not to mention free availability of tons of over-complicated "does it all" frameworks that dont really fit to solving any particular problem perfectly, but are good enough to avoid solving complex problem where you have no workforce that would actually be able to solve it. And guess who profits - engineers certainly not. Actually we are denominating our work by giving it out for free (try to get someone to paint your walls, to lay down some ceramic tiles, to fix your car,... for a price of mentioning who did it behind the bumper, under a tile,...) [1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/the-internet-is-being-protected-by-two-guys-named-st https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/the-internet-is-b...