IMO, the landscape has shifted. "Back in the day", before we could use computers, we had to build them. Technology was new and we were growing with it. It was enormously liberative, but not all use cases were. A couple of us wanted to open source and give away a school information system database schema so that anyone could built upon it, and there could be data portability between proprietary silos that locked people in and stifled innovation. That didn't work out.

Young people have great tools as a foundation, and it's my hope that they focus on use cases to liberate people instead of trapping them in walled gardens.