> Open Source was not some brainchild of megacorps but very much so a mission of the wider software industry to band together to have an alternative to hugely e

> Open Source was not some brainchild of megacorps but very much so a mission of the wider software industry to band together to have an alternative to hugely expensive proprietary software vendors No, you are thinking of Free Software and copyleft, which predates Open Source. Open Source was invented as an alternative to Free Software.