> This is probably going to get a lot flake but what did we expect when big tech started eating up open source solutions and competing with the companies who started the work

Big tech started doing that when open source as fairly young, and it was never a problem, because no one was launching a business centered around making open source software and being better than big established firms at selling services around it.

What actually created the crisis is when, a couple decades later, people started to launch VC backed startups with the growth demands that involves and business plans that centered around creating open source software and selling hosted access to it.