You can even shorten that. This is some corporate hollo-bollers takes-your-time-and-gives-nothing-in-return fakery-roo.

> exactly the opposite of what the hacker ethics promotes for good reasons.

Yup. Seems kind of like those zombie plants in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the first remake; though the original is also great, but it was more about communism as threat, whereas the first remake added a bit of alien horror motifes).

Silicon Valley is not as large as it might seem, and knowledge sharing and consortiums and working groups happen a lot.

You can complain about supply chain problems, or you can actually try to work on it. They're trying to work on it.