In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like “unpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”. There are variations on that theme, like Github Sponsors launching, pieces that explains how the CRA will magically make companies pay maintainers, etc. It is usually cheered on by the peanuts gallery, which applaud making the Evil Big Tech pays for the abuse they impose over their “exploitation of the Commons”.
Wish there was some ideas into “what’s next.” We know FOSS doesn’t pay, and AI is breaking the moats. Now what?