Why ask this? Maybe they are? Maybe they aren't, and that's ok too.

Why not ask this? People are burning out here. Meanwhile corporations be making billions. I don't like that.

That's the social contract with open-source software. You are not owed a cent for your work. But they're not owed support either.

On the other hand, building an entire company atop experimental software that might explode or cease to exist tomorrow seems so monumentally stupid that the inevitable business failure is the outcome they don't need, but so badly deserve.