Opensource has been there for long. All literature is predominantly opensource and tends to become opensource at infinite time.
In network programming too, all innovations started as RFCs. This created a scenario where no-one person owns the intellectual property, created likewise.
Over time we have seen, how this community or academic institution created assets have been bent and twisted to derive commercial value, out of open community assets.
I am not trying to denigrade the use or innovations over opensource technologies. Many times commercial version of opensource do have a purpose and add to the value of opensource. This is true. The price tag for opensource based commercial technologies is also not high.
The trend to use opensource but not contribute or support commercial options is becoming the real issue in opensource.
My teacher used to call this "karma purpose" or whimsical in common terms.
Adding more and more opensource without a clear objective of supporting them adds to collosal technical debt for the individual, private enterprise and industry.
Nothing comes for free, ever!!
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