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> We’re heading towards a handful of giant companies that can afford to pay large teams to build and maintain FOSS, and hence own developer mindshare, for their
by BossingAround 6y ago
> We’re heading towards a handful of giant companies that can afford to pay large teams to build and maintain FOSS, and hence own developer mindshare, for their own selfish reasons.
Can you name some examples of such "selfish reasons" connected to some OSS?
I can think of Google taking over the internet with Chrome, but MS did the same with IE, so that has nothing to do with OSS. It's more that Chrome happens to have source code available.
- lenkite 6y agoGradually, more and more of Chrome will become closed source as is already happening. DRM, Sync features,...