> The direction the web is taking is worrisome. It's 100% economic. "Everything has to be free" means there is no money to be made in selling actual applicatio

> The direction the web is taking is worrisome. It's 100% economic. "Everything has to be free" means there is no money to be made in selling actual applications. That means the industry pivots to SaaS since the cloud is DRM and by running apps remotely you can charge rent and make piracy impossible. As a bonus you get the user's data, which you can do anything you want with in most cases. As a bonus SaaS can also claim to be open source if only the client code is open, or if all the code is open but the SaaS still holds all the data and has the network effect. So you get those open source virtue points for free while still locking up the data or the network. Of course the other response to "everything has to be free" is surveillance capitalism.