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this is telling and insightful, thank you for posting directly. However, in the "I am in the great castle on the hill" ELSE "you are alone in your cottage kitchen" trying to sell "amazing-craft-thing" to "someone" .. is blind in important ways. Civilization including specialists developed in many, many ways.. not just this overtly-fuedal manner (pun intended). Significant groups, guilds, economies, academic institutions, militaries, drunken bro frat guys at a resort with poker chips.. all of those and more, are possible in a diverse world. People given tools and access build amazing things, sophisticated things, among the ordinary "coffee mug warmer" projects. please consider this, manor dwellers part II - sophisticated tools developed on company premises with advanced inputs over long time.. then BIG_EVENT happens and the situation changes.. anything from "investors pull the plug on expensive operation" to "C-suite drama" to "invasion" .. can change things very quickly. What happens to $TOOLS ? is the real value going to survive long court proceedings, or "code is locked up, lawyers are not available" .. Google Inc has not gone out of business, but these things do happen. Open Source License has to adopt to economies from Viet Nam to USA and everything in between. Practitioners must make the changes and norms because non-specialists rarely will. The norms have to change from economy to economy yet the value carries forward. This is years of work from specialists we are discussing, with a short half-life. waste is not optimal The parent-post here focuses on "point of sale" dynamics, like a retail store or car lot, in order to make a statement about business transactions involving Open Source sophisticated tooling. There is no way that shows the life-cycle or player roles for this situation, therefore is wholly inadequate to use to extrapolate all possible value transfer scenarios |