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It's really sad. But it sounds like a natural consequence of doing it under capitalism. I wish for a time when everything will be open source by default
It won't happen. What might is paying back if you use it for commercial projects.
Something like you pay some percent of your gross to an organisation and that gets split between the top level dependencies you use and then split down through their dependencies.
Software remains free for non commercial use, companies pay a fair share and the Devs get paid.
I guess it's a wishful thinking, on the line of corporations pay for the damage and pollution they create...
This really is the only way if we want competition (lower prices) and choice. All actual revenues would be derived from service provision (consulting, customization, tech support, certification).
From a "small c" capitalism perspective, it is not normal that MS, Nvidia, Apple have such insane margins. Competition should have forced them to lower prices while offering the same level of products/services.
Regulation that prevent's insane copmpamy buys and mergers.