Some of the most interesting and innovative open source software, at least in the JavaScript ecosystem which I am most familiar with, has been produced by eccentric, independent individuals who write open source because they love it, not because some megacorp pays them to do it and to represent the company's interests.

If these creative and brilliant folks could make a decent living writing open source software that benefits the commons instead of frequently seeking out contracts to write proprietary code for a single company, then we'd all have more innovative open source software to use. Everyone wins.