> Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? I work on pg800

> Seriously. What's the point of open source if companies just steal it, build billion dollar industries on top, and then lock everything down? I work on pg8000 https://github.com/tlocke/pg8000 https://github.com/tlocke/pg8000 which is used by Amazon, Google etc. I'd argue that pg8000 and any Open Source software doesn't give them a competitive advantage, because in order to have a competitive advantage you have to have something that your competitors don't have. It's more that they'd be at a competitive disadvantage if they didn't use Open Source software. That's not to say there aren't problems with the big tech companies, but I'd say that Open Source isn't where the problems lie. In my view the problems stem from the nature of the web, in that it is a centralized architecture that inevitably concentrates power. Something like IPFS https://ipfs.io https://ipfs.io would help liberate the web?