@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol I don't struggle to see such an alternative reality at all, and more importantly, what does that "explosion of FOSS projects and contributors" actually *mean*, materially?

Sure, lots of people are nominally doing open-source. Have the FOSS options improved in quality or governance? Has work for maintainers become easier, or have they just been burning out even harder? (It's the latter.)

It's easy to focus on the numbers and say "open-source is more popular than ever", and in a literal sense you would be right. But is the *way* in which it became popular actually benefiting society? Or did we miss out on a healthy and sustainable ecosystem by focusing on number go up?

And who is benefiting the most from FOSS as it exists today? Is it average people, communities, and end users? Or is it tech corporations and fascists?