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by JumpCrisscross 5122 days ago
The point isn't that established players are immortal. It is that the role of open v closed in that usurpation process is negligible.

Closed systems overturn open systems just as much as the other way around (or closed v closed or open v open). Very few people outside hacker culture care whether what they use is open or closed.