You frame it as a negative thing, but FOSS is a positive for society. I contribute to FOSS in ways that directly benefit myself, and incidentally benefit others

You frame it as a negative thing, but FOSS is a positive for society. I contribute to FOSS in ways that directly benefit myself, and incidentally benefit others. Incidentally I benefit from others' contributions to FOSS, as a consumer, and also as a business. It's a positive sum good for everyone, not some adversarial zero-sum game. It's so good that we need to be doing a lot more of it, and (I think we'd all agree) figure out more ways to allocate capital to FOSS.