I agree, but what I think is curious about the whole situation is that you can also see it strictly as a market failure. It's a very pure example where parties

I agree, but what I think is curious about the whole situation is that you can also see it strictly as a market failure. It's a very pure example where parties in competition each that have a use for some kind of software can shortsightedly develop their own versions of it in-house, but that duplicates a lot of effort. They'd be better off getting together with their competitors and collaborating on a shared version that suits their needs, avoiding duplicating effort and all benefiting from each others' contributions. They could do this by direct collaboration or by funding an independent organization that fulfills their needs. Sure, this can go badly if there's a large difference in scale between the different parties and some can muscle others around. But it and similar models do work out at the scale of the Linux Foundation, Khronos, down to Mastodon, GitLab, Blender, Krita, Forgejo, even arguanly projects like Bitcoin Core. There isn't the structures to facilitate this kind of regime shift. But there should be.