[Spivak]

Why do tech people keep falling for this shtick? It's happened over and over and over with open source becoming open core becoming source available being becoming source available with closed source bits.

How society organizes property rights makes it damn near impossible to make anything commons in a way that can't in practice be reversed when folks see dollar signs. Owner is a non nullable field.

[sva_]

Because the people that got recruited on those terms suddenly see what kind of dough they will be making, I suppose.

[blackoil]

By believing that since they aren't "MBA", economics and human behaviour don't apply to them.

[8organicbits]

Thankfully the code as it was during the open source stage can be forked, maintained, and developed further if another party is interested.