Just as a side note, "free labor" is common and not necessarily a bad thing. Whenever you give someone a gift, whatever work you did on it is effectively free labor. You could also think of donations to charity that way when you fund them out of your salary, not to mention volunteering.

It's true that often people don't want to do that, though, and this is certainly understandable.

I don't want to give free gifts to surveillance capitalist companies.

> SaaS is more closed than closed

Nice turn of phrase.

I'd add only that services not only can be more closed than software, it's normal and in some sense acceptable that they are. Whether it's freedom rhetoric or business advice, there's a strange disconnect between received wisdom for software and received wisdom for services.

>free labor for SaaS companies

Approximately all then open source software I work with on a daily basis is SaaS companies pooling efforts on the problems they have in common, yes.

That's by no means all of open source. Some of us are working on things designed to re-enable a peer to peer personal computing model.

> SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothing, not even your data, and can trivially be spied on and monetized in other questionable ways

Spot on, and those companies managed to subvert and violate the spirit of FLOSS in many ways.