Interesting article by the Drupal founder on Makers vs Takers
He exposes the impact when "takers" start to profit from the work of the "makers" (open source devs) without contributing much to that project.
The problem I see on his argument is that the Internet and most of what we use today is built on open source. From the operating systems, network stacks, tools, web servers, browsers, etc. We are all takers.
Even him and Matt's company (Automattic) that own open source projects, are also 90 % takers. They rely on the immense work done on Linux, web servers, PHP, MySQL and all the GNU and BSD licensed tools they likely use to run their companies.
And the reason why they invest so much on their own open source projects is because they own it. And they get business out of it. And lots of money out if it. When you have for profits owning open source projects, open source becomes a freemium model (their free version). And if someone else is making money on their freemium model, those problems start.
Gone are the days where we would see open source for the sake of open source. For the sake of freedom. For the sake of community.
Real open source would be glad to see people making money and building on top of their products.