Part of this goes back to the entire GPL/AGPL vs everything else debate. Everyone has been getting away from GPLv3 and it's derivatives for the past decade. In

Part of this goes back to the entire GPL/AGPL vs everything else debate. Everyone has been getting away from GPLv3 and it's derivatives for the past decade. In that world, would it matter so much if some commercial interests took a product, since they'd always have to at least show their work? The idea was that we'd eventually have FOSS replacements for everything from Photoshop to Word to video editors. 2019 and GIMP is is nowhere near the level of Photoshop, Libreoffice is pretty decent through, and DarkTable isn't too shabby. Still, this FOSS utopia of all our software never happened. Linux as a kernel for Android has led us to an even more closed system than before. Sure if Linux was GPLv3, maybe we wouldn't see it as the basis of Android at all, but if we had gone down that route, I wonder how things would be different. I've written at length about this before: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-philosophy-of-open-source-in-community-and-enterprise-software/ https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-philosophy-of-open-source...