This caused problems for more than just "companies that made so much money off of free software". In fact, I dare say that those companies were least affected,

This caused problems for more than just "companies that made so much money off of free software". In fact, I dare say that those companies were least affected, and it was the poor unpaid free software developers who trusted Marak's packages to maintain backwards compatibility that ended up scrambling to do the extra unnecessary work to clean up his mess.