I understand your point...you have the wrong angle. You seem to think that parasites won't do their best to make use of whatever they can get. The thing you need to realise is that the open source community has been a thorn in their side until recently when they started to promote it after years of fighting it....
They have the cloud which is a complementary service as you say....but to what is where you are missing the forest for the trees.....the trees are opens source....the forest is the value of the platforms.....
The corporations embraced open source at least a decade ago. Android is built on open source. Windows began embracing it since Windows 8, which marks the fall of Windows as a desktop OS and the beginning of Windows as spyware. Google and Facebook have used and manipulated open source from their beginning.
The main argument for open source is code reuse, but code reuse is a false idol. We need code diversity, just like we need diversity in genetics. We need a resilient and redundant technological ecosystem, not a fragile one, and a single code base is ultimate fragility.
The ultimate result of code reuse applied to genetics is that humans become clones. Then we realize that we don't need so many clones, and radically reduce the number of humans. Code reuse is, basically, death of all alternatives.
No...if anything - reuse is successful genes propagating...its code that has found a survival trait...if you want to go all evolutionary biologist on this...
I understand your point...you have the wrong angle. You seem to think that parasites won't do their best to make use of whatever they can get. The thing you need to realise is that the open source community has been a thorn in their side until recently when they started to promote it after years of fighting it....
They have the cloud which is a complementary service as you say....but to what is where you are missing the forest for the trees.....the trees are opens source....the forest is the value of the platforms.....
The corporations embraced open source at least a decade ago. Android is built on open source. Windows began embracing it since Windows 8, which marks the fall of Windows as a desktop OS and the beginning of Windows as spyware. Google and Facebook have used and manipulated open source from their beginning.
The main argument for open source is code reuse, but code reuse is a false idol. We need code diversity, just like we need diversity in genetics. We need a resilient and redundant technological ecosystem, not a fragile one, and a single code base is ultimate fragility.
The ultimate result of code reuse applied to genetics is that humans become clones. Then we realize that we don't need so many clones, and radically reduce the number of humans. Code reuse is, basically, death of all alternatives.
No...if anything - reuse is successful genes propagating...its code that has found a survival trait...if you want to go all evolutionary biologist on this...