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> You need to earn money, sure. But it's really sad that things like this are not OpenSource I find myself saying this about basically all unfree software. So

by rexpop 7y ago

> You need to earn money, sure. But it's really sad that things like this are not OpenSource I find myself saying this about basically all unfree software. So much in our economy is redundant, and obfuscated. I understand the place for competition and new ways of doing things, but it's a shame that artificially limiting the proliferation of good ideas is our default survival strategy.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
Competition is a thing in Open Source too, look no further than the NPM library. It really boils down to "people need to eat".
- rexpop 7y ago
  NPM and Yarn are hardly "open-source competition". They're loss-leaders in a SaaS market competition between private corps Facebook and NPM.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    That's not what I mean. Look inside NPM repository. Individual libraries compete against other libraries doing the same thing.
    - rexpop 7y ago
      Yes, I understand and value that, especially when the "victor" can be learned from, and incorporated freely.