There is an opportunity here to wake people up to how shit so much of tech is and how to improve them. Before it was just nerds and economists who complained of the stifling of competition by the monopolies. Now it’s geopolitical and more and more obvious to more and more people.
100% yes. Open source is not missing this:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/
Or the more technological political:
https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/
There is an opportunity here to wake people up to how shit so much of tech is and how to improve them. Before it was just nerds and economists who complained of the stifling of competition by the monopolies. Now it’s geopolitical and more and more obvious to more and more people.