In the corporate sphere, software is treated as an ever-evolving amalgamation of code and people - This is why enterprise software services keep changing and br

In the corporate sphere, software is treated as an ever-evolving amalgamation of code and people - This is why enterprise software services keep changing and breaking over time; without the people, the software stops working. Also, as the people change, the code changes. The code is often overcomplicated; there are a lot of politics going on whereby developers introduce unnecessary complexity into the code as a way to make themselves essential to the company. The code is too tightly coupled with individuals or teams. When some individuals leave or the teams are shuffled around, their code has to be replaced. Also the code is often tightly coupled to specific hardware or operating systems or SaaS services; developers in big corporations rarely bother to try to make their code portable to different cloud providers or operating sytsems. In the open source sphere, software is more often treated as just code. There is not such a strong incentive to play politics because there is no money or job security involved. Because the software often needs to run on a wide range of systems within different cloud providers by different people/companies, on different operating systems with many different execution engines; coupling to specific hardware, systems or SaaS services is strongly discouraged. When open source does become coupled to some external service, it's more likely to be a blockchain - Which has this 'forever' quality (due to the decentralization aspect) and it almost never changes.