Comment by Certhas

This is essentially realizing that free markets don't pay proportionally to value created, but according to the marginal value created by paying more.

Compensation according to value created is fair. It's a goal we should strive for, but it requires either not going through free markets, or it requires empowering market participants to generate fairer outcomes.

This is pure fantasy, for many reasons: But if there was a union of OSS developers that would negotiate corporate open source users contribution to open source, and that would have the power to withhold license rights, compensation would probably be fairer overall.

Essentially a code collective rather than decentral anything goes open source ala GPL. I wonder if that would be attractive to some open source developers?

I think there sometimes is a strong aversion to get organized. "I just want to code!". But the idea that we can do without actively organizing society is naive, and if the outcomes don't suite us it's because those that actively organize (e.g. corporations) hold the power to shape the world in their interests.