An engaging critique and on-going work concerning the inability of open source communities to deal with the consequences of its use beyond the blinkered mantra that ‘what we call #FOSS today was originally for hackers by hackers’. Free software usage has been systemically captured well beyond that scope and appropriated by existing and aspiring large corporations, with resultant human and social consequences largely ignored. And this is just the beginning …
Re >So why have we not won?
Won what?
OSS is a fundamentally different approach from proprietary.
As for winning, it already runs all over the place, and provides solutions that proprietary simply doesn’t even try to address (which is also why we have a million forks, a challenge all it’s own). I can’t thank the devs I rely on enough.
The self-hosting world wouldn’t exist without it. (A world that’s growing like crazy).
And yea, the political goals thing is disturbing.
Edit: I know I’ve won - won by having solutions like Proxmox, TrueNAS, LINUX, for crying out loud, and all the appliances used from SMB to Enterprise (e.g. NAS, Backup, edge security devices, etc).