Because they go about it all wrong. They sat on their info and tried to monetarily capitalize while keeping it all secret. When you do that, you inevitably play into [their] hands. Open source everything every step of the way and stay publicly vocal, and this doesn't happen.
You might end up broke. Then some big cooperation will probably claim they made it and patent your invention. Then you get to have fun trying to fight that, while broke. It happens to lots of inventors who make more normal products
Because they go about it all wrong. They sat on their info and tried to monetarily capitalize while keeping it all secret. When you do that, you inevitably play into [their] hands. Open source everything every step of the way and stay publicly vocal, and this doesn't happen.
You might end up broke. Then some big cooperation will probably claim they made it and patent your invention. Then you get to have fun trying to fight that, while broke. It happens to lots of inventors who make more normal products