Who Owns the Stack
The full sourced and scored expansion of September's one-page stack audit: ownership, funding, open-source status, enshittification evidence, and military ties for every tool bjrees.com and Klara depend on.
Ben Rees - 18 October 2026
In September I mapped the six companies that own or fund almost everything bjrees.com and Klara run on. This is the full version: every entity scored on tech-bro ogres, how well it actually works, how far it's followed Cory Doctorow's enshittification pattern, and its documented defence and wartime contracts, each line pinned to a dated source rather than a hunch. Claude, Google, Microsoft, Meta, X via xAI and SpaceX, Apple, and the smaller independents all get the same treatment, including the one score the earlier post caught the tool grading its own maker getting wrong.
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