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by yamtaddle 1294 days ago
The wisdom—which likely was already around before but became the common sort that everybody making and funding software projects knew by some time around 2010-2015—is that there's no real money in the open Web. To make serious cash you have to own a platform. That means exclusion and lock-in. You only really participate in the open Web for initial growth, if even then.