From HackerNews:
In the '90s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things for each other - for other FOSS devs.
In the '00s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things for users.
In the '10s, FOSS devs mostly volunteered their labour to build things out of habit, which kinda ended up unintentionally being for the benefit of FAANG/Microsoft/VCs. No-one's quite sure how that happened, or where we go from here.
