If you read around the personal attacks, ESR has an interesting point: The rules of open source allow anyone to fork Google's work, which allows people trust th

If you read around the personal attacks, ESR has an interesting point: The rules of open source allow anyone to fork Google's work, which allows people trust the platform more, which spreads the platform in ways that would otherwise be impossible. And he relates this back to game theory: The bottom line is that these selfish agents can form a stable cooperative equilibrium that wouldn’t be stable without the open-source commitment.