How could this change?
What resources do you have that capital doesn't? Clearly all you have is bodies and ideas, and ideas that do not effect material conditions at that. I'd argue the options are to organize among your community (the community of programmers) or to give up on world domination. A utopian vision of the former would be vast armies of programmers going on general strike together to enforce their demands of free software in their workplaces or even on their government. This is especially unlikely due to the lack of material benefits for such a thing.
An amusing method which feeds into the engineers bias for innovative technical solutions would be a cryptocurrency which is rewarded on the basis of various version control interactions, and with some mechanism to control against price volatility. It's difficult to imagine how such a solution could be made viable however.