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Why do tech people keep falling for this shtick? It's happened over and over and over with open source becoming open core becoming source available being becomi
by Spivak 3y ago
Why do tech people keep falling for this shtick? It's happened over and over and over with open source becoming open core becoming source available being
becoming source available with closed source bits.
How society organizes property rights makes it damn near impossible to make anything commons in a way that can't in practice be reversed when folks see dollar signs. Owner is a non nullable field.
- blackoil 3y agoBy believing that since they aren't "MBA", economics and human behaviour don't apply to them.
- sva_ 3y agoBecause the people that got recruited on those terms suddenly see what kind of dough they will be making, I suppose.
- 8organicbits 3y agoThankfully the code as it was during the open source stage can be forked, maintained, and developed further if another party is interested.