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by thawaya3113 1543 days ago
They aren’t a monopoly.

Nobody puts everything as well together as they do. And obviously they have a massive library of unique data and functionality.

But there are thousands of competitors of all sizes.

It’s just very hard to see any of those competitors providing a free/open source alternative because the code is not a very large part of the value they provide.