The problem is not developers accepting investing, but that investors are predatory and malicious. The company and product doesn't matter and they'll happily burn it to the ground if that makes more money.
As a society we should probably consider such behavior unacceptable and deserving of strong governmental protection. But alas, this behavior makes line go up.
> The company and product doesn't matter and they'll happily burn it to the ground if that makes more money.
they do not burn it to the ground, community has open source high quality product for absolutely free developed on investors money. Anyone can fork it, and do whatever he wants. I imagine if product is very good, and parent corp will decide to close sources, there could be some smaller business/consultancy supporting OSS version of this, or even MS/Google take over it as it happened many times e.g. ElasticSearch vs OpenSearch.
The problem is feeling entitled to be paid for a job, even getting something like a Mac, without ever contributing a penny to upstream, across all tools that make that nice paying job possible in first place.
As a society we should probably consider such behavior unacceptable and deserving of strong governmental protection. But alas, this behavior makes line go up.