Yes, my argument sounds weird. About as weird as Google paying for software they don't have to pay for. Maybe rephrasing my argument makes it more palatable to

Yes, my argument sounds weird. About as weird as Google paying for software they don't have to pay for. Maybe rephrasing my argument makes it more palatable to you: Shouldn't we, the guild of software engineers, take care of our own and pay our sub guild of open source developers? Why would we leave that to faceless companies?