I also perceive a similar conflict of interest with the "open source but pay for support" model. A good deal of software I've come across with this model was perversely byzantine. If your users only pay you when they're confused, there's negative incentive to make it less confusing.
Citizen in what? A free labor pool for billion dollar companies and hustle culture bros who want to rebrand some FOSS and slap a control panel on it for a quick SaaS flip?
FOSS is supposed to be a gift culture. You give back by making your own, fixing bugs, doing volunteer tech support, or yes paying the creators or a company or foundation that pays them. You don't just take and then whine about "gimme my free stuff," but that's the attitude that many people seem to have adopted.
Another thing I really dislike is the ecosystem being dominated by surveillance capitalist companies. They have a vested interest in using FOSS to steer the ecosystem in ways that benefit them and their interests, and I don't like the direction they are likely to take things. Unfortunately they have plenty of money to "dump" high-quality open source on the market in order to exercise leverage over it. This isn't charity. It's a control technique.
I am personally starting to dislike the OSI for pretending these issues don't even exist. If you look at who funds OSI it's completely captured by mega-corporations, mostly in the surveillance capitalist space.
Open source needs a steward that cares about the freedom part more than the free part.
FOSS is “supposed” to be about individual liberty of the lone user to make any changes needed for themselves, and the right of that user to publish those changes as they see fit. Nothing more.
Otherwise, I agree with you. If you want to stave off corporations doing this, you should use the AGPLv3 license.
I also perceive a similar conflict of interest with the "open source but pay for support" model. A good deal of software I've come across with this model was perversely byzantine. If your users only pay you when they're confused, there's negative incentive to make it less confusing.