Don't support open source led by a corporation. There is no primary motivation behind the project. Everyone working on it is subject to the whims of ephemeral l

Don't support open source led by a corporation. There is no primary motivation behind the project. Everyone working on it is subject to the whims of ephemeral leadership and a headless monster moving towards indeterminate goals. The 'community' holds no sway, because it's not built by and for a community; it's built by a capitalist enterprise for a capitalist enterprise. Much more cathedral than bazaar. They may feign to accept your contributions, but only when it's extremely convenient. Look at nearly any open source project that's corporate-led, and then - if you can find a FOSS alternative, because most of them die if there is an incumbent well-funded project - look there too. The FOSS one works the way you want it to. It has features built-in that the corporate-led one locks up as a "paid feature", and refuses to accept an open-source alternative contribution. Our entire Open Source community only works when it really is a community. People contributing their works and getting it merged just because it's what we all want. Corporations aren't part of the community, because they don't do anything without profit. Imagine a FOSS project lead who wouldn't merge a PR unless she could make money off it.