@kingcons yo thanks for boosting https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/ reading it, and https://blog.erlend.sh/open-source-explained and https://blog.muni.town/company-as-commons/ and then also reading Small is Beautiful and Tools for Conviviality sure has a lot of stuff swirling around my head.

I think the key insight of "hyperscalers want software to cost nothing because you still need servers to run it" was eye-opening.

I've also been thinking about Kubernetes as a (bad) version of GIFEE, and how that's also been bad for software companies.