Hard disagree - even before the domination of Big Tech, the reason open source became the way it is - the domination of GNU/Linux - was because of the commercia

Hard disagree - even before the domination of Big Tech, the reason open source became the way it is - the domination of GNU/Linux - was because of the commercial interests of server vendors pushing Linux (a server OS) as a product. It's the same reason Linux has had a limited success in other spaces (embedded, mobile, desktop) - as opposed to something like Windows, it's poorly engineered for the needs of these domains (lack of realtime, good IPC, binary compatibility, native audio, graphics capabilities etc.). If you think of early 2000s mobile hardware, which used to run a variety of mobile OSes, yet Linux was incapable of properly supporting this domain. All attempts to rally around Linux as a consumer OS in these domains failed, because it just wasn't really built for that. Yet Linux was powerful enough to suck the air out of the room and prevent the emergence of competitors. (I don't really consider Android Linux.)