I agree with your assessment of the current state of things, but we shouldn't just accept that as the only option. Is it really too much to expect that the mos

I agree with your assessment of the current state of things, but we shouldn't just accept that as the only option. Is it really too much to expect that the most senior engineers in a company could carve off a small portion of the marketing budget for "community good-will" and make small donations of platform credits (which cost close to zero) or cash? If each of the $100B+ tech companies put just $10M into open source with a bit of care, I wager they would make the money back in developer job satisfaction and evangelism alone.