What do you think of the paper's research claims that the returns for maintainers are reduced and sharing is decreasing?
Except it's on Github and it's forks and starts.
Also, it's a scarcity mindset.
I don't agree that sibling to my comment: "make money by getting papers cited". it is not a long-term solution, much as Ad revenue is broken model for free software, also.
I'm hopeful that we see some vibe-coders get some products out that make money, and then pay to support the system they rely on for creating/maintaining their code.
Not sure what else to hope for, in terms of maintaining the public goods.