Open source software is a very strange phenomenon in some respects.

Built for personal reasons by amateurs and enthusiasts. Professionalized as a means of extracting free labor from hopeful job seekers.

Has accidentally become essential public infrastructure; but without the coordinated maintenance support that most public infrastructure receives.

Presently a zone of conflict between multiple parties including all those mentioned above, governments that wish to control it's use, and commercial operators who want to use it as feedstock for their proprietary code generators...