It's got a weird bit of nuance to it. I think Open Source does well because it's economically infeasible for it to fail. The cost of hosting source code is next

It's got a weird bit of nuance to it. I think Open Source does well because it's economically infeasible for it to fail. The cost of hosting source code is next to nothing, and the idea of writing a shared library/tool gives it long-term appeal. The problem boils down to human nature, and the greed/ambition/entitlement we feel isn't balanced with a proper respect for our surroundings. If you train people to be entrepreneurs, they'll nickle-and-dime every free software product they find. There's not really a problem with FOSS software, as I see it. It's okay to disagree with it's principles (or even for the purposes of a single project), but the concepts of public licensing are completely moral and just. If we frame this as a money problem, corporate FOSS benefactors will build us a money pit. That's not what Free Software (capital F) needs.