[LennyPenny]

regarding the OSS points: The only reason that Google, Fb, etc can freeload off of OSS is that we abandoned going for viral licenses (ie AGPLv3)

The big corps simply will not use such OSS because they would have to also make their code open.

More wide adoption of these licenses would encourage a more healthy relationship between corps and OSS devs.

It's easy to imagine that in a world where essential low level software and useful libraries are AGPLed, the current big corps would probably not be as big as they are today. Instead more transparent organizations with more sustainable business models would gain a real advantage.

[ofrzeta]

You should not forget that they open sourced a massive amount of code themselves.