[netdevphoenix]

As sad as it might seem, this will be good reality check for companies of all sizes to start contributing to the open source ecosystem they take so much from. Either that or I foresee the rise of some stewarding group balancing the vampires with the contributors (ie. you gotta contribute a relative minimum to feed from the ecosystem). The current state of open source is not sustainable anyway judging by the stories of burn out contributors and most companies are just used to having so much free stuff available that they don't even consider paying back or where the free stuff comes from until vulnerabilities start to increase in abandoned packages with no alternatives beyond fronting an insane amount of dev time to write a replacement or fork the project