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Meanwhile, creators of FOSS projects are often underfunded and lots of people are in such dire straits that rich people talk of mollifying them with a few paltry dollars via UBI rather than fix anything.

That's likely the crux of the issue. If you do it right, you can steal from other people and get rich. Meanwhile, those same people (whose work was stolen) may be left out in the cold no matter how original, creative, hardworking etc they are.




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