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As usual it boils down to: open and modular is better except that people won’t pay for it, so we get closed monoliths and SaaS even if they are often inferior.

It really does seem that you have to make businesses pay. Otherwise they won’t, and if they don’t there will be no resources to actually build what people want.

But as I always say: people will spend $300 in a month at Starbucks. No problem. But paying a quarter or less of that for software is a hard no. So we get what we pay for, or rather don’t get what we won’t pay for.