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> With the rise of GitHub and in particular the explosion of web development as an open platform, commercial stakeholders in software caught on to the compellin
by tommiegannert 2y ago
> With the rise of GitHub and in particular the explosion of web development as an open platform, commercial stakeholders in software caught on to the compelling economics of open source.
It could also be that the grassroots of the dotcom era literally grew up and wanted to capitalize on their work, while still retaining their values. What we have today is something in-between closed source and open source. I.e. "commercial stakeholders" isn't a merged branch, but the linear evolution of the original one.