Wait a minute: The moment OpenSSL actively started seeking for funding did receive bids from huge corporations. Same thing happened for OpenBSD, the time window from the moment De Raadt started shouting about funding to the moment where OpenBSD received the needed funding can be seen as extremely small (and for a good reason since both OpenBSD and OpenSSL are corner-stones technologies/achievements).

Of course these projects (and many others) should receive scheduled funding by lucrative corporations or the state, but to me seems like ultimately our current approach works fine and it is just auto-adjusting to the need for better/more responsible development and funding. Let's wait and see how the situation will evolve next year and the year after that.

I think the author is just choosing a half-empty-glass view for no reason. Financially successful projects offering an open-source/community version and a SaaS version of their software are extremely popular these days, which means that generally speaking it works.