Races to the bottom to … do work exclusively for free and not make any money out of the hopes that they become the most popular OSS toolkit, with an end goal of … what?

A race to the bottom of… unpaid work that eliminates the paid work? Can you elaborate?

then it is up to community to fork the project if they find it valuable and can convince people migrating to their fork.

many engineers actually work that way, right? We are employed for 12 months and give our availability fully to the company and we get salary for it, why isn't it allowed to others?

Isn't that what we have already?

That’s just the status quo.

Please go ahead and fork curl

Ah yes, people will just be clamoring to use hURL