No it isn't. Not at all. The author is mixing systems of project governance with monetary incentives.
Open source is a system is project governance and maintenance, whether engineers are paid for working on those is a completely orthogonal question.
The log4j vulnerability is a perfect example. Software has bugs. Open source is no exception.
But instead of this being hidden inside some corporate closed code we all now about it, and a fix was already out when the story.
I do (strongly) agree with the Author on the fact that "freeloading" open source software does not work. In the end to some extent you get what you pay for.
Personally I am lucky enough to be paid to work (in part) on open source software.
Open source is a system is project governance and maintenance, whether engineers are paid for working on those is a completely orthogonal question.
The log4j vulnerability is a perfect example. Software has bugs. Open source is no exception. But instead of this being hidden inside some corporate closed code we all now about it, and a fix was already out when the story.
I do (strongly) agree with the Author on the fact that "freeloading" open source software does not work. In the end to some extent you get what you pay for.
Personally I am lucky enough to be paid to work (in part) on open source software.