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This meme is pretty accurate
Look at the rankings of most stars on GitHub
https://gitstar-ranking.com/repositories
Repos completely dominated by big tech a la Microsoft, Meta, Google, Alibaba, Tencent
Actual code projects are web frameworks and ML frameworks by Meta and Google
FOSS is weaponized by big tech to make all code projects outside their company dependent on them and in worse cases, Amazon will just straight up steal somebody's code, slap an AWS wrapper around it, and sell it as a service for millions without crediting or compensating the author
FOSS is also a great way for big tech to have free labour improve their tools that can't be monetized or have free labour help them in their fight against competition
Nobody is paying for web frameworks like React so get a bunch of Meta bootlicking nerds to improve it for them for free. Selling Borg/Kubernetes isn't worth the additional miniscule revenue stream for Google so release that. Meta and Google open sources PyTorch and Tensorflow so people can hopefully make one better than the other. Meta open sources their inferior LLM models so people can help make it better than OpenAI's
I agree, good comment. There is so much big tech in foss/oss community, like you gave example with repos and with react. People working for free for big tech. Getting something to put in their CV or just bootlickers.
Every open source or foss from company is in company interest, it will never be in community interest.