If a business chose to not be evil, it would be outcompeted by the businesses that are evil. Most of the evil we see business committing is a result of maximizing profit, and in a system where profit is the primary motive (capitalism), evil will always win. It's an illusion of choice because the non-evil business tend to stay small at best, or go out of business at worst.

FOSS is a different system where a project's existence isn't contingent on profit; the developers just want to make good software. So sure, it isn't necessarily the only way to make ethical software, but it seems to be the most consistent way, and I have a good feeling that it'll continue to catch on as enshittification continues to rear its ugly head.

This is good information, I wasn't thinking that through properly.

Ah, that makes sense.

They might be using it, but they're not using it in my neighborhood. There are wrong streets all over the place and I've keept the OSM for my neighborhood meticulously clean for years. I have thousands of elements across hundreds of houses. And they're not just behind, they have roads that are under contstruction but they're not accurate and I'm the only person who's put them in on OSM, using drone footage I collected myself.