It is a distortion to frame the problem as corporate vs. open source. These corporations compete with open source but they are often sustained by it, and in any case they operate within a space that is impacted by it. A healthy open source community is generally to their benefit. The inverse is also true, to the extent that corporations support and integrate with open source, it benefits from a healthy commercial market. All too often, they take and do not give back, so many people in these comments here are pointing out the same contradiction that you have highlighted. But it is not so much a matter of predators and prey, we all share the same ecosystem.

The corporations themselves are not a monolith. Their leadership and engineering teams are made up of diverse perspectives on open source, and those perspectives can shift. These same questions are debated within the company and the balance is always shifting in a way that can either benefit or undermine open source. I'm personally skeptical for some of the reasons you described, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a better relationship to open source.

That's a Rihgt However, what I'm curious about is that this project governance feels more closed than open source, rather than truly being open source. Your point is valid too. I admit my thinking might be a bit too binary.