It's definitely not a tragedy of the commons problem. Open source doesn't get used up by more people using it. Takers actually have an inherent interest in sup

It's definitely not a tragedy of the commons problem. Open source doesn't get used up by more people using it. Takers actually have an inherent interest in supporting the open source software they use, in direct proportion to the long-term value they derive from it. You actually need some countervailing force to have significant takers. E.g, with Wordpress I think there's an acrimonious and competitive relationship between the for-profit company controlling the open source project and one of the big for-profit users of the project. The tragedy for OSS here is that an OSS project is being used as a lever in a struggle between business competitors over who gets the dollars. (I suspect WordPress was always designed and intended to support a commercial enterprise, though, so this kind thing was probably always going to be part of it.)