lol. Open source software subsided by incredibly profitable companies. Paid for by the value generated by their closed source software.

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Not to mention, people were paid a lot of money with the explicit exchange that they were going to be building open source software.

Entirely different premise from raising capital to start a company.

Imagine satoshi and linus torvalds thinking this way

Protocols and operating systems should be open source, it’s the only way they ever get scale