> You would think that a developer-focused strategy would involve open-source, and that doing things to decrease their influence on the open-source world would

> You would think that a developer-focused strategy would involve open-source, and that doing things to decrease their influence on the open-source world would reduce their influence The influence you are talking about is negative: increasing control means increasing arbitrary behaviour, which means increasing your risks as a platform user, which means masses of pessimists fleeing to saner competitors who don't seem willing to take away your toys.