I believe the conquer-all thinking of big corporations is fundamentally incompatible with open-source culture, if there is such a thing. Top-down, authoritaria

I believe the conquer-all thinking of big corporations is fundamentally incompatible with open-source culture, if there is such a thing. Top-down, authoritarian measures are too much in their DNA, and that includes the CYA angle. I suspect this might end with the usual “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” — not because someone consciously follows an evil plan, but because of that fundamental incompatibility. It will increasingly be “our way or the highway” and people who disagree will have to make camp somewhere else, if they can. But can they really when NPM practically holds a monopoly position in its space?