I wholeheartedly disagree with your underlying premise of what open source is or should be.
It's not a job.
It's not a résumé.
It's not a damn lifestyle or an in-group to define yourself through.
It's a way of saying "I wrote this. I allow you to look at it and use it for yourself, if you like". Nothing more, nothing less.
> randoms from around the globe should keep their leftpads for themselves and their friends.
That seems like a bizarre inversion of responsibility to me. Randoms can publish whatever they please; if you use their left-pad, that's on you and you alone.
It's not a job.
It's not a résumé.
It's not a damn lifestyle or an in-group to define yourself through.
It's a way of saying "I wrote this. I allow you to look at it and use it for yourself, if you like". Nothing more, nothing less.
> randoms from around the globe should keep their leftpads for themselves and their friends.
That seems like a bizarre inversion of responsibility to me. Randoms can publish whatever they please; if you use their left-pad, that's on you and you alone.