> The article makes no allowance for things like loyalty or obligation. No such obligation to users exists in open source. The open source developer is his own

> The article makes no allowance for things like loyalty or obligation. No such obligation to users exists in open source. The open source developer is his own customer. At best, you could argue there's a reciprocal duty to your fellow contributors, but I don't see how you can extend that any further. By contrast, Gitlab and YouTube only became profitable because of the free contributions from others, and your views that YouTube monetized, so in fairness it seems like there should be some reciprocal duty there.