@mhoye Developers also have more choices outside the "Free Software"/"Open Source" scene now.

When all this stuff got started, the transaction costs of proprietary meant that if you started on a student/hobbyist budget and wanted to do globally useful software, free was the main option.

Now mobile app stores make non-free projects even lower hassle than free ones. And SaaS platforms aren't much harder. The overhead advantage of participating in open source went away while the downsides stayed.