Ask HN: Why have co-ops never played a major role in tech?

Modern tech has a vast open source ecosystem and a huge investor backed one, but very little if any significant activity in the form of cooperatives, where individuals or small companies pool their money and other resources to take advantage of economies of scale and compete with large companies, but not one another.

Seems like something the space could increasingly use as folks become beholden to a handful of massive companies who are increasingly trying to exploit their size to increase prices, margins, and profit.