> the closed-source corporate world ... will continue that way indefinitely the lifespans of corporates is well known to get shorter and shorter. Lean periods,

> the closed-source corporate world ... will continue that way indefinitely the lifespans of corporates is well known to get shorter and shorter. Lean periods, in particular, prompt people to re-examine the economics of various technology choices (The world of HPC is full of such extinction events, Unix workstations disappeared in favor of Wintel etc. Having survived previous events does not guarantee eternal survival). On the other hand the line between "developers" and scientists/engineers will get further blurred and complacent corporates may at some point feel being completely starved of the relevant talent. Just today there was a front page HN discussion about ML augmented PDE solvers. It was not written in fortran.