It becomes a zero sum game because it's competitive and one company gets to take the lead and win, because that's how it's all structured. I think as a society

It becomes a zero sum game because it's competitive and one company gets to take the lead and win, because that's how it's all structured. I think as a society we have never experimented with any other model. What if all software was open? Would be impossible to make a living from it? I think it would just make it hard to have mega-corporations with thousands of employees across the world with just software. This would mean that we would have a lot more smaller software companies filling in the shoes of the large ones who depend on owning not just software but user data. In this world, large companies could only exist by focusing on hardware, and I think this distinction makes sense. Software can be copied and pasted, hardware requires physical resources. The fact that a small number of software companies are so powerful is not going to be good in the age of AI.