Lots of the money comes from the US and US companies. But as you said, it is open source.
Linux was awesome 15 years ago. They probably just had driver problems. Those used to be much worse.
Big corpos don’t want to take it over, they want it gone.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
That was pretty much what I meant.