Comment by palata

> For example, if you're building a data center, one cost saving measure is to use Linux

You're giving an example where a proprietary service benefits from open source. It supports the opposite point to what you're trying to say: not only the market rewards proprietary products, but open source actually helps proprietary products. If you open source your code, you risk helping your competitor.

> Many projects only target dozens or hundreds "consumers" and, for those, advocating for purchasing FOSS might be a valid strategy.

Again that's off topic. The goal is to enable technical people to make EOL products work for everyone.

> So we needed regulation in this area, we successfully got it and now we see that it's only as good as enforcement.

Which is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: in order for regulations to be enforced, we need the enforcer (a government) to be more powerful than the enforcee. But after we have allowed TooBigTech to appear and become more powerful than governments, it's difficult to expect anyone to enforce the regulations, right?