Open-Source Project Corruption

A spokeswoman for the Wikimedia foundation recently said that without further donations, Wikipedia would be taken down within three months.
I think this is another corruption of an open-source ideological project. It seems as if more and more projects are started as healthy open-source ideas. But as they mature, they ask for more and more monetary support. Isn't this infringing upon the very idea of sharing that the ideal open-source advocates and institutes? It's almost as if these open-source supporting companies lure in contributors by selling their open-source project. The adopters of open-source stuff are usually pretty zealous and loyal, and therefore have a greater chance of contributing money to the project. This is destroying open-source. The projects threaten loyal users to contribute money or they will stop development otherwise. They try to make it as dramatic as possible. Another example of this is Dillo, with the new FLTK2 port. The head of the project is refusing to release the port until he gets donations. If a project is going to advocate open-source, they shouldn't hide behind it trying to make a dollar. It's really sickening to see things like this happening to open-source projects with so much potential.
I understand that it does take actual resources to support a project when you're not actually making a profit off the product. But too many projects are exaggerating it. They are taking advantage of innocent contributors who want to really help the project.

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