Gregory's Server
@baldur @toxi This seems undeniably true and likely to only further aid the concentration of software development into the handful of megacorps that will fund their own internal ecosystems, will often rent their fruits to the wider world “as a service”, and occasionally offer a landmark project as actual open source, though whether these are gifts or traps is a question worth asking.
@baldur @toxi The other color I might add is that, in addition to the rich California coder cadre, a couple of decades back at least, there was a cohort of developers doing open source as a hobby alongside college work, or even work outside the industry, back when the cost of living crisis didn’t require full-time professional employment and there was room for, well, slack.
In the US at least, that path has narrowed to a knife’s edge.