A bunch of months ago I read an interesting article about called "Why Open Source Failed", and I found it really sharable, it is true it is what RMS repeats as a mantra for years, you need an ethical approach even of software otherwise you are going to lose freedom. Most companies use floss, foss, open source software to sell service that aren't open (almost all) or do not return anything back.
Most companies are focusing on the Linux Kernel but not because the community or because the freedom just because they understood how to make money with it.
At Linux North Fest 2018 Bryan Lunduke made the point about that: https://invidio.us/watch?v=TVHcdgrqbHE
The corporations are seated in the Linux cockpit and are leading the Linux development far away from freedom and the users community and since the broad adoption of systemd we do not have any kernel alternative, we don't have a plan B and I regrets the lost of Debian/kFreeBSD. The most ridiculous thing is with Microsoft seated on Linux Board Director the only GPL alternative to GNU/Linux is ReactOS. The absurdity is the corporations prefer the GPL instead of MIT or BSD licenses, so what was at beginning created for the goods of all has became a way for the corporations to defend themselves from the community.
Now we are stick with a giant and fat kernel without alternatives and this also our fault...