That hits hard from my youth (and I'm only in my early 30s). Can we all please actively communicate to people that open source is not a business model, and any large firms promoting it are likely just looking for free work? Like communicate that in an empowering way?
Yeah, it would probably decimate open source contributions in the short term. But honestly, our field would be so much healthier overall in the long term.
The same could be said about copyrights/patents (another point argued over the years). If you get rid of these protections for everyone, the only people that will end up on top are the large companies with lots of resources that can just take your ideas and not compensate you.
But isn't that exactly what we have now with the existing patents and copyrights implementation?
Maybe some people are getting some money, but I know if Amazon (random example company name) violate copyright or a patent of mine, I don't have the resources to take them to court over it much less win.
The firms that will fight them are few and far between, and are priced accordingly.
We all need to wake up to this.