That’s an excellent point, I didn’t even think of the connection with my last post until you mentioned it. And completely agree that reliance on companies ultimately does more harm than good. It would be much better to move towards a donation model for cases where money is needed sustaining projects. Good news is that copyleft ecosystem is still thriving, and there are lots of high quality GNU licensed projects around. I find that can mostly stay within GNU ecosystem on Linux nowadays.

I do think we need much more aggressive advocacy for copyleft going forward to counter corporate propaganda as the first step towards the long-term goal.