I feel Big Tech has warped the definition of open source by buying into it as a consumption model, not a participation model. After all, as a developer I don’t

I feel Big Tech has warped the definition of open source by buying into it as a consumption model, not a participation model. After all, as a developer I don’t really care about contributing code, I just want free stuff. Google, Mongo, AWS , and others are more than happy to fulfill that need (each for their own selfish reasons). For this reason, when we encounter “true” open source, we are perplexed why someone won’t help us for free. Sadly this just reinforces a kind of learned helplessness where we fed we can’t do anything without the open source project solving our problem...