Very well put, I agree. Maybe I'm too idealistic, but I want to make my stuff work my way, with nobody else's potentially-conflicting motives or possibility to

Very well put, I agree. Maybe I'm too idealistic, but I want to make my stuff work my way, with nobody else's potentially-conflicting motives or possibility to just disappear involved. That is definitely more work, and a bad idea for a business, but for personal stuff that's what I want. > You can kick around purely metaphysical notions of “ownership” to your heart’s content. I guess what ownership means to me is, in the worst case scenario, if everyone else involved disappears, I still have possession of my stuff. If this open source project dies, I can fork it and maintain it myself, or pay someone else to. Compare that with some SaaS product, the company might just disappear one day and all of my stuff is gone with no recourse.