[throwaway49872]

More like:

Proprietary software reinvents itself as corporate-driven Open Source with SaaS Lock-In

[pyuser583]

Bingo.

Look at Microsoft. Used to charge an arm and leg for software. Then ran up against competition from Apple and Google.

2000s were not good for Microsoft.

They’re getting their act together now. But for a while they were very much old tech.

[ken]

They realized there's a lot of technical people who like open-source software, so they found a way to insert themselves into the middle of that.

[throwaway49872]

The whole SaaS industry and most of "tech" companies are little more than middleman between open source software and end users.