Not really. Payments made to maintainers of business-critical upstreams are only sanctioned at board level if the failure to pay could result in identifiable ad

Not really. Payments made to maintainers of business-critical upstreams are only sanctioned at board level if the failure to pay could result in identifiable additional risk to the business. As a general rule, this plays out as a kind of high level socialist monopolizing for big tech, and low level capitalist competition for everyone else.