> What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down?
That sentence is a contradiction in itself.
> Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source.
Not on GPL-licensed open source, as far as I know.
> Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps.
That is simply not true. A great deal of the open source software I use on a day-to-day basis is funded by some of these companies. The number of GitHub repositories they publish for all to use, under permissive licenses, is immense.
> The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter are testing the limits of democracy and radicalizing everyone to cancel one another.
You are right about this, but this is at best tangentially related to open source.
That sentence is a contradiction in itself.
> Apple is telling us we can't run our own software on their goddamned devices, yet they built their empire on open source.
Not on GPL-licensed open source, as far as I know.
> Look at Facebook, Google, Amazon. They've extracted all the blood they can and given us back scraps.
That is simply not true. A great deal of the open source software I use on a day-to-day basis is funded by some of these companies. The number of GitHub repositories they publish for all to use, under permissive licenses, is immense.
> The web is bloated with ads and tracking, AMP is given preference, Facebook and Twitter are testing the limits of democracy and radicalizing everyone to cancel one another.
You are right about this, but this is at best tangentially related to open source.