Yeah but the point is that megacorps have dedicated teams of specialists to do that kind of bullying and they do it with organizational consensus and coordination between relevant departments. No random individual engineer is ever going to be authorized to do that.
What I meant was that when an engineering group needs a fix from a FOSS developer, the natural thing to do is to bully and beg.
One reason beside bad culture is another aspect of bad culture. If they want a fix to a piece of FOSS, probably a library, they might have to beg their management for weeks or months, instead of just specifying that their project requires lib-from-overworked-dev-in-Nebraska-who-is-thinking-of-taking-up-alpaca-ranching-instead version 2.44 or later, which is what they can get if they beg, cry, and/or bully said alpaca contemplating developer.
