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if there’s anything corporations love more than rewriting software so it lets them make all the money they can dream of, it’s letting other people do that work for them.
optimizing for profit at the expense of any other consideration. chasing short-term gains and ignoring long-term sustainability or justice. squeezing every drop of surplus value out of every person within reach and putting it in the hands of a dozen investors and overpaid executives.
in a word, capitalism.
if post-open source wants to not die the same death, it will need to explicitly and aggressively fight its greatest existential threat.
Sadly, we're heading this direction and a end of an era is upon us. I could even say open source altogether would be dead next at this rate.
Melody Horn on what a post open source world would look like