> Don’t shame an amazing open source project for trying to be financially sustainable.

While one can talk about corporate contributions and basically ownership of some open source projects (the F5/Nginx case included), I also think that the funding is a big challenge for many projects out there.

Now, this is from 2019, but I found the article "Software below the poverty line" to be a useful if a bit grim look at the way things are: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html