Are we seriously blaming the victims now that they're not strong enough to stand up for themselves? Do you go to people who got bullied or fallen for a scam and tell them you could have said no at any moment, it's their fault completely? The offender just asked nicely for your credit card information, they did nothing wrong, you just had to say no. Sorry, they played a fair game, you lost.
> The companies aren't "consuming"
What? what do you call companies who only come to a project to ask for features requests and then take that feature and disappear?
> The code is there, they can use it if they want.
But.. no one is complaining that they simply used some open source code that was published online. Why do you make up ridiculous arguments by yourself and then proceed to mock them? I'd understand if you misinterpreted my point but are you really oblivious to the struggles of open source maintainers? Or you're just downplaying it or something else? What's going on here?
Yes, they could have said no. They could have not released the code to begin with. But that doesn't change that they were taken advantage of.