The idea of open source was originally as a thumb of the nose at software makers like Microsoft who don’t release their source code. It made the community responsible for the content of the distributions.
If someone takes OSS, modifies it to their needs, and makes money off of it, they don’t owe the originators of that OSS any money. AS a matter of fact, that’s explicit in the GNU license agreement.
The OSS people are not anti-capitalist, they’re pro-responsibility. I trust open source more that I do MS or Apple.
The people responsible for maintaining and monitoring the code are the original whistleblowers if someone tries to deploy a distro with malicious code.
Incorrect. FOSS was the original code profile. MS came along and started selling their code--much to the chagrin of the rest of the developer community.