I think in general the idea that open source means tons of crowdsourced free labor is both very misleading and very much oversold by people who do make money on it (I have also been paid to work on free software and done my fair share of shamelessly pimping free and libre software as a giant pool of free labor) (but I’m referring more to giant corporations that exploit community software)
It is a giant pool of free labor, but it's an uncontrollable pool which will go in whatever direction it wants to and doesn't care about what you would like it to do ;)
