'Reflexive' is a bizarre term to use, but I guess you're just looking for a generic devaluing term. I heard your point loud and clear, it is hardly subtle, or

'Reflexive' is a bizarre term to use, but I guess you're just looking for a generic devaluing term. I heard your point loud and clear, it is hardly subtle, or novel. But in your rush to tell me how wrong I am, you missed mine, which is that you can't see what is in front of your face. Free software is mainstream. It hasn't supplanted all other development models, and it hasn't conquered every market, but it doesn't need to. The fantasists/propagandists claiming it is fringy have yet to square that view with, say, the reality that stodgy F100 insurance companies migrated their LOB workloads to it years ago. The fact that it is mainstream means that the model that lead to this conclusion needs modification.