The collective consciousness known as open source has always been guided by an ethos with several key components, including fundamental inclusiveness, decentralized governance, and the instinctive disdain for monopolies. Underlining all parts of this ethos is the idea of freedom - that the world will be a much better place if software and information iss free to access, modify, and create.
Far from being the kind of soul draining mumbo jumbo that plagues corporations and bureaucracies, this ethos has been the key reason why open source went from being a niche movement to underpinning much of the internet. The people of the world idolize billionaires and titans of industry, but the open source movement has arguably contributed much more to the benefit of the everyday person everywhere in the world, while flying very much under the radar.
Perhaps more importantly than the vast trove of intellectual capital bestowed to the world by open source, has been the manifestation of a new v