Corporations only care about corporate clients and don’t give a sht when I report bugs. They get put on the backburner, meanwhile with Blender I get an instant response everytime. I’m not used to reporting bugs and actually getting results. It makes me more confident and excited to use the software knowing any issues I face will prob be fixed if I report them.
I see your point and I too believe that making free software is the ethical way.
Yet, I also believe that having the source code available is valuable by itself. At least from a perspective of a developer that has to depend on corporate software. I see open source as a subset of the rights of free software.