It's not a panacea. Open source software is nice when it doesn't put contibutors into the poor house while corporations depend on the code at large-scale and d

It's not a panacea. Open source software is nice when it doesn't put contibutors into the poor house while corporations depend on the code at large-scale and don't support what they take. Open source software is great for SDKs and other supporting materials, but Github and Google aren't going to make their core infrastructure available to all... it defies common sense. Furthermore, companies which would lose more profit than hard-to-monetize goodwill gained, by releasing something their competitors can use against them, has as much chance as an airplane made of lead. Open source can help sell small products get initial traction but it makes them easy to knock-off and easy to steal (unless you make the build process hard and fragile)... It just won't scale because human nature.