I really agree with your sentiment to a point, but the problem as I've written elsewhere (ad nauseam) is that software isn't free. Software, particularly easy t

I really agree with your sentiment to a point, but the problem as I've written elsewhere (ad nauseam) is that software isn't free. Software, particularly easy to use software, is extremely labor intensive. If FOSS is about developers writing themselves out of the equation, it means nobody can make a living making it. If nobody can make a living making it, that puts a pretty huge limit on how much resources can be put toward making FOSS better. Closed silos don't have that constraint so they will win by sheer muscle power. The BSL (our current license) sort of sucks, and I look at it as a stopgap until we can come up with something better. I have some ideas, but they need to be developed and so far I have not had time to develop them further since coding and running a company are fairly demanding. They deserve a blog post at least. Outstanding reply BTW.