I think your average geek used to be like, somewhat academic and erudite and into arcane knowledge and had some level of good faith of wanting to engage in discussion
Now it’s all frauds and absolutely braindead elon stans and crypto dipshits and conservative freaks and people who enjoy and defend watching big tech destroy everything.
yeah he bought dos and im pretty sure even the folks at that company did not have open source on the radar with what stallman was doing. Maybe by late nineties but if anything they resisted it. Kept on doing versions of open standards with a spin so that they would not interoperate correctly.
people still arguing about how much of MS-DOS was copied from CP/M
that would have nothing to do with open source though.