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>>todsac+(OP)
I am a big FOSS proponent (I almost exclusively use FOSS), but I find it difficult to not become disillusioned recently. It seems the large corporations like FANGs are largely pushing OSS to use volunteer work to make software a commodity, while trying to accumulate more and more data, which they consider their main value.

At the same time we have companies like pine, who seem to support FOSS through relatively open hardware, but which to me seem increasingly more about a way to make a profit of the FOSS trend by using volunteer work without any investment from their end. I question if they are actually interested in their devices actually being functional for regular use. See also this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32330043

Finally we have distributions like Manjaro who seem more interested in growing their slice of the pie at the cost of other distributions instead of growing the whole Linux ecosystem. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hxpj87/change_in_man...

>>cycoma+9M
> corporations like FANGs are largely pushing OSS to use volunteer work to make software a commodity

Corporations has been coopting Free Software for two decades by opposing GPL, calling it Open Source and essentially turning it into unpaid labor.

Yet community-driven FOSS is still possible and thriving around things like mastodon.

Remember to use a license that protects your contributions, your community and your users.