@baldur Really interesting topic. I find myself mostly agreeing with your points. A couple we might argue/discuss.
One, high interest rates, seems wrong. They are low (in the USA) and are heading lower. There were significant OSS efforts in the 1980s and the interest rates then were far higher than today.
@cxj The context for that is that US interest rates used to be effectively zero until a couple of years ago which drove a lot of investment in tech. The change in behaviour in tech after 2022 when they were raised was really noticeable. It's "high" insofar as it's higher than zero