I find it hard to believe that this is the main motivation for most who contributors to OSS. Do you have a reference, research or poll that corroborate this? Y

I find it hard to believe that this is the main motivation for most who contributors to OSS. Do you have a reference, research or poll that corroborate this? You’re vastly overestimating the value of these “fixes” that now go to private forks, because maintainers also have access to LLMs and can prompt, probably better than a drive by fix since they have better understanding and context of the codebase. Therefore I believe, in most cases, keeping those fixes to private forks is not a noticeable loss for the OSS projects.