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Single vendor is the new proprietary

it’s time to reassert the value of software developed in an open collaboration. Everything else is proprietary. Everything else is a relicensing time bomb.

This permissionless innovation has enabled a ton of valuable software (itself often released as Open Source), which fed into the virtuous cycle that we benefit from today. The non-compete licenses some companies come up with restrict you from doing anything with the software that they disagree with or consider “competition,” under pretty vague and untested legal terms. If their vision wins, if everyone adopts this approach, all the innovation that Open Source freedoms allowed to unleash would come to a halt and we’d quickly be back to where we were in the 80s.

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