Comment by api

The hardest thing is competing with free. Well funded startups can "dump" free products and services into the market to kill competition and capture the market. Large corporations also dump open source into the market to commoditize their compliments or kill competition.

Dumping is illegal in a lot of commodities markets and physical goods industries but it's standard operating practice in software. It's hard to even imagine how different the software world would look if dumping were at least regulated.