

The “free” part is clearly not working. Or rather it is working as is now intended: free labour for the private sector to exploit.
I remember seeing a thread about redis on r/linux where lots and lots of people were basically defending Amazon as if from an anarcho-capitalist position. This confused me as I always saw foss (and foss users) as leaning socialist and anti-corporate.
I spoke to someone about that and they linked me this article (and the article linked in the first sentence) which really opened my eyes.
The TL;Dr is basically:
FOSS is not socialist. The free software movement is right-libertarian / “anarcho”-capitalist, and the open source movement is neoliberal; neither of these is even particularly close to socialism.














It has happened in the open, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t happen even more behind closed doors:
Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained several errors, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence to help produce it..