>> I worry about the future of web development when I see things that used to be shared openly... one-by-one become startups with a price tag I'm not worried.

>> I worry about the future of web development when I see things that used to be shared openly... one-by-one become startups with a price tag I'm not worried. I develop for the web, and nearly every piece of my tech stack - language, editor, database, server, browser rendering engine - is open source. My skills are in such high demand that my team can't find people to join it. I feel zero pressure to use anything closed-source. >> Web dev will only stay open so long as web devs fight to keep it that way. I do agree with this. I think it's unwise to develop for platforms like iOS, however popular they may be. It's a form of sharecropping. Let's keep working on the web, where every computer and mobile device is on equal footing, and we don't have to rewrite our app to reach new customers.