@purpleidea I don't think you can easily quantify the economic benefit that tech companies reap because of OSS. It's likely huge. I'm not arguing that they're giving back more than they're taking, that's pretty unlikely - but fairness is tangential to the point I'm making.

Generally, there are hundreds of millions flowing every year through various OSS foundations. And if you look at the proportion of, say, Linux developers employed by large tech companies, it's non-trivial too.

There's plenty of small projects that get very little, but at the very least, it's not black-and-white, and I don't think we can blame all problems on that.