It's not too strange. Open source has taken off for a similar reason that news wire services took off in the early 1900s. Most software organizations create i

It's not too strange. Open source has taken off for a similar reason that news wire services took off in the early 1900s. Most software organizations create isn't the end product, so if you can leverage a community to maintain it, it (hopefully) reduces costs for all maintainers. Meanwhile, free software is really right to repair for software enforced via copyright instead of (dedicated) legislation. It threatens to reduce the power of the corporations, so they will be generally hostile to it unless their end products are the services that only they can build around it.