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Comment by johntash

5 days ago

The (almost) opposite is also a feature: it's OSS and will still be available if the business goes out of business

Companies need someone to blame who has skin in the game.

An "open source contributor" is not gonna wake up at 2AM on a Saturday because the business that someone else partially built on their free code suddenly went down.

This is ALSO, conveniently, why AI's will never completely replace human developers. You cannot blame, reward, or punish an entity that has no such sensitivities.