@MontgomeryGator @babe That sounds about right.

A problem for FOSS development is a similar hollowing out of the middle: as I recall in the 90s, a lot of software was developed and somewhat supported by universities and government research bodies, with limited but not insignificant resources. Now, FOSS is dominated by the same rapacious corps we complain about all the time, or else by harried volunteers, often in their downtime from working for those corps.