I concur, I've been 'around' the OSS community even before I had skills to be able to give back to it and something after 2010 shifted and it felt like open-sou

I concur, I've been 'around' the OSS community even before I had skills to be able to give back to it and something after 2010 shifted and it felt like open-source was a way for corporations to exploit free labour of ideologues they could sell a daydream to. The promise of fame or getting hired, etc drove some young people who bought the lie to give up everything. I even knew a guy who only stopped when he was homeless and spending all his time on library computers trying to respond to people. Open source is a gift given by whoever wants, and it's amazing to be in a place in life when you can give if you want to, but it's all 'bonus'.