One attempt was open source. Or perhaps libre software? I guess it is not a success since only one of these looks mainstream.
It is curious how successful AI developers have been in trying to redefine "open source" as "the binary is free to download"
Open source is still around ? It would be vastly improving your life even though you can’t see it.
Free/Open Source software is very mainstream now I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe we are taking too much of it for granted?