We are seeing the results of a decades long extraction from open source, where markets have driven more to be built while externalizing the cost of review and maintenance.
(If only someone could have told us that invisible labor is devalued under capitalism. If only there could have been some voice there to speak up and tell us that. What a tragedy that no one, decades and decades before the creation of the open source movement, said exactly that thing.)
It's amazing that now, with "AI", capitalism has done the most paradoxical thing of providing support in an extractive way. Even dumping money into security and auditing stuff (the thing we *NEEDED* the whole time, the thing they just never did, the thing that was always written out as "out of scope") is being done in a way that extracts value and destroys the resources on which it relies.
We have to understand that there are invisible commons everywhere. Just because they aren't physical, doesn't mean they aren't real. Open source is a commons. Trust in security is a commons. The collective attack surface of the whole internet is part of the commons of the internet. If these commons aren't managed, they will be mined and destroyed.
One thing capitalism does better than anything else is colonize commons and destroy them. If there's any way to get value out of a commons, capitalism will worm it's way in and hollow the thing out until it collapses.
