What a mess indeed; This article. OSS being maintained by hobbyists for the love of the game, as a side thing. Where do you get this from? Corporations, like Microsoft, are huge players in the OSS game. Is your commercial IDE more secure than VSCode? Dost thou even code? Do you have any references or is this all just clickbaity made up opinion stuff like the black hat hacker who wants to unplug our grandma's life support. Part of me wants to do a full analysis of this nonesense, write it up for you, and present to you just utterly psychotic the idea even is. Unfortunately I actually have to write code for a job. Yes; Open Source, not a side project.