[jFriedensreich]

Its not that many people got paid a lot before for their open source contributions (and pride/ attribution will just change as we get used to the reality) and with models improving more, most projects will be possible to recreate from scratch with very little effort anyways. What changed a lot is how i think about accepting contributions, why go through the hell of PR dance and wait for fixes that take forever or get ghosted if i can just have an agent finish or recreate the PR with immediate reactions and no sensibilities to being called an idiot. Similarly, GPL and garbage dual and "custom" licenses by companies pretending to be open source will just be dead as soon as there are standardised cleanroom rebuilding pipelines. Why would i contribute to something prohibiting me to build a business on top if i can spend a few thousand $ and 2 weeks max to have the whole project rebuild as Apache 2.0 based on behaviour analytics and spec extraction? Apache 2.0 and MIT will be the gravitational force that OSS and even closed source goes to because no one has to care anymore. Of course there are exceptions but those will grow fewer and fewer. Also the hurdle for an open source library or project to be viable existing as a real entity will grow immensely, i would consider the cost of anything on npm too high if it can be rebuild at hoc in a few files and save me from dependencies.