The problem, though, isn't the mere concept of trying to monetize open source work. It's the fine line between balancing profitability and openness vs deception

The problem, though, isn't the mere concept of trying to monetize open source work. It's the fine line between balancing profitability and openness vs deception and exploitation. Open source with community governance is clearly better at upholding ideals, but honestly, other models can work, too. As I see it today, the CLA is a major issue: it can be seen as insurance against existential threats for open source projects, but it's being used to make pulling the FOSS rug legal 99% of the time its ever exercised, it seems. Only solution I can see is to stigmatize the CLA.