[tannhaeuser]

The situation we have now -- that no ISV can make a living -- is precisely the result of decades of making software Free and Open such that it has become a commodity. The only money to be made left is in services, and that market is increasingly captured by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Services, leading to centralization, stagnation, and self-referential pseudo-innovation a la Docker (and increasingly, the web). I whish F/OSS purists would focus on solving today's problems rather than defending ideas of their youth.

[ChrisCinelli]

What do you mean by "solving today's problems" ?

[tannhaeuser]

Monopolization, privacy invasion/attention economy, and the demise and weaponization of the web as a medium for misinformation

[aey]

Crypto currencies have captured 100b+ in value trying to solve those problems. Vast majority of the code is open source as well.

[tannhaeuser]

Yes of course. My comment was addressed at those coming up with dogmatist "no freedom 0" arguments when anyone dares to make a living with their work.