[berkes]

I presumed we were talking about the service part and not the software part. My comment was about running a service and not about offering FLOSS (or no floss) software.

Though I expect the same applies there too, only that "race to the bottom" is less of a negative thing. And could probably be "race to open-source". Where slowly all paid-for software gets FLOSS alternatives that -at some point- offer competing support/features/experience and therefore make the paid/proprietary alternatives more or less obsolete. E.g. while Oracle is still running and offering their database, on the whole, the world runs free databases. While Microsoft still sells billions of OSes, on the whole -including Android- the world runs Linux mostly. And except for OSX, hardly any other paid-for unixes survived. And so forth.