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One path for developers who don't want to make a charitable donation to their friendly Fortune 500 is to pick a free software license unpalatable to corporate lawyers and then charge corpos for a commercial dual-license.

You are free to volunteer your time to Amazon, no one is stopping you. They would probably accept cash donations as well.

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I feel like you're just restating the premise, which I'm explaining won't work or at least will see significant challenges. Companies won't touch your software, whether you support a corporate license or not, and you have no way to enter the company because of that license.

It's not insurmountable. Lots of companies have been built on AGPL or adjacent licenses. It's just a meaningful hurdle. People can do whatever they want, your framing of "oh just give your money to corporations" is ridiculous as I'm not advocating for anyting like that.

You're advocating for a corporate-friendly zero-money license. I don't know what you want to call that other than "giving away your work to help sponsor enterprise software"

I'm not advocating for that at all.

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