“Critical” projects and volunteer maintainers

Article note: The response to all this kind of shit should always be "If you want me to act professional, you better fuckin' pay me like a professional." If assholes want to build businesses on top of other people's hobby projects, that's their problem. Also, the rise of dung-beetle development, especially when coupled with a vast DAG of micro-libraries instead of a few large standard libraries, is a recipe for disaster for enough reasons that this isn't even the worst one.