> Like how anyone can basically take all you work & base a proprietary fork on it with maybe saying "thanks" (attribution) if they feel like it ? :P

I'd assume the Bun people got a bit more than a thanks when Anthropic acquired them. :)

You also can't take your GPL code (unless you do CLAs with all contributors), convert it to closed source yourself and make a massive VC funded startup around it. Which is about the only other way anyone makes better money from open source than by just working for a big tech company.

I'm very aware when I pick Apache-2. I want attribution for my work, but I don't care about open source purity. I respect closed source software and I put my open source code up for free because I don't care to profit off of my hobbies.

for the same reason most ruby and javascript/typescript stuff is. Heck, even most python.

Most of them never got into the GPL in the first place.