Also, the maintainers "burnt" listed in this blog post got pissed off because they can't control another project ("linux"), that doesn't belong to them or was created by them, to go in a specific direction that they would like.
The Open Source world has become what the startup world became: more posers than supporters.
If you're worried that people will steal your code, your idea, or use your product for free, then don't claim it's "open source" and say "source available for auditing purposes" and start paying for contributions.
Try to overcome the aversion to saying "free software".
This would more accurately express what your trying to say above...
Also overlooked the fact that in 2025 open source directly feeds into training sets and this has implications and contradictory effects.
I did a research on the reasons why open source exists and what motivates people to do it and was fascinated how the different goals and motivators for open source are mixed up in some free4all amalgama in peoples’ minds.