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> Millions of people are storing their data on self hosted or 3rd party run managed OSS services on multiple platforms.

That's open source being used by developers to provide a closed service to users. Users experience it as an opaque closed service.

SaaS backed by open source is actually the most closed model of software, more closed than closed-source software run locally.

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That’s because of extractive economics from tech not because of any failure or weakness of open source. If tech economy was in equilibrium open source would be massively popular. Polished alternatives are subsidies by extraction economics.