I can’t claim that what’s happening is good or dangerous, objectively.
However the neighborhood feels completely different now, now that many of its participants have different values. And main companies with plenty of existing contracts have began building their fortunes on open supply in a means that feels - to me, on an emotional level - exploitative.
Whether the utopian vision was silly, or the mega-corps are evil, or the open supply community is defaulting on its values. Fewer nonetheless will open source main elements of their product. And it’s impossible to issue out my aging, the rising jadedness that you're feeling having seen some historical past.
If you share something at no cost, the first thing that happens is that someone else will sell it. Startups shouldn’t be their unpaid R&D division.
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