venting, sort of subtoot
And this is not so much a complaint about that one maintainer, as it is a complaint about FOSS culture more broadly, and its chronic inability to recognize that capitalist power dynamics are something to defend from, not something to embrace,
leading to people tossing in the towel entirely.
This is going to keep happening as long as you actively invite corporations in your midst
Or to phrase it differently: a public commons can only actually work, if you eject those who only ever intend to take from it