The point being made is that people getting upset when they are made to feel like their altruism is taken advantage of, let alone abused to ends that are against the spirit of the original work, and getting disillusioned and abandoning projects of love, is quite a natural and altogether human reaction.
OP said they didn't get why anyone would/should be particularly upset by megacorps using their open source software in perhaps not the manner originally envisaged. I was simply trying to come up with a more relatable example to relate why. The induplicability of food is completely irrelevant here.
> The induplicability of food is completely irrelevant here.
Then in what sense is the metaphor valuable? It was merely meant to depict an emotion that the humans on this forum will already be well aware of?
The implied nature of a food bank is providing food to those in need - I've yet to see a software where the implication is that the wealthy can't use it.