Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

The article argues that open source has reached a stable market outcome where free, permissive licensing wins distribution while proprietary models retain profit, but the real business risk is that the maintainers sustaining this ecosystem are underfunded and burning out. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic implication is that enterprise software dependency is increasingly concentrated in a fragile, unpaid maintenance layer, creating operational, security, and continuity risk across modern application stacks. IT organizations should treat open source as a critical supply chain that needs active governance, funding, and contributor support rather than assuming the ecosystem will remain healthy on goodwill alone.