The SaaS Apocalypse Is OpenSource’s Greatest Opportunity

A trillion dollars wiped from software stocks. Creation costs collapsing to zero. Proprietary SaaS is fragmenting, but OpenSource is positioned to absorb the wave. The catch: maintainers are already drowning in AI-generated slop (as FOSDEM 2026 made painfully clear), and need to embrace AI tools themselves or risk being forked by those who do. New business models are urgent. Meanwhile, projects like Holosign are replicating DocuSign at a fraction of the cost, and The Free Lantern proves even niche music for the Linux community is viable now. The next era belongs to OpenSource, but only if we build for it.