[tremon]

copyright and open source, both of which turn out to be almost irrelevant in the face of automated Kafka-esque monopolistic bureaucracies.

What do you think the free software movement was all about, if it wasn't about avoiding Kafka-esque monopolistic bureaucracies? Read Stallman's "The Right To Read", from 1997.

[wizzwizz4]

Open source, on the other hand, has been embraced by those automated Kafkaesque monopolistic bureaucracies.

[skeeter2020]

Do you mean the consumption of open source software has been embraced, i.e. they love using free software but are not big fans of the backside of the model?

[pessimizer]

They like using free software, but they hate Free Software. Open Source is their friend.