It seems to me (having sworn to not ever publish another line of free software after many years of doing so) that a kind of serfdom has been established in free software similar to the one working directly for FAANG. The difference is free software doesn't pay enough to live on ramen, if they even notice your project at all.

[I noticed the stump of the pine tree, which apparently was cut down after a fire, in the picture at the head of this article--maybe why the author left Pine64? :)]