It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's "Strategy Letter V" talking about how open source is often used to commoditize the complement of your product[1]. It's been very

It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's "Strategy Letter V" talking about how open source is often used to commoditize the complement of your product[1]. It's been very sad to see the open source community being taken over as the OP points out by corporations, but there is hope. There is still a thriving community of people who do open source for fun, but as the OP points out, a lot of these communities do use GPL. I'm thinking about sr.ht in particular. 1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/