I'm "lucky" to not be smart enough or important enough to think about this. Regardless, i wholeheartedly agree -- at this point, anything i personally could release publicly, will either be fully open source, or completely private. And I'm only choosing open source if I'm relatively sure it's not gonna make some asshole tons of money.

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gobdovan 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's in the ballpark how big corps use open source strategically. They try to kill everyone value extraction moat at any other layer than the ones they dominate. So they commoditize their complement [0]. They don't care if you make money based on their OSS, as long as you race to the bottom against anyone else who also has access to it and turn anything but the corp's profit center into a ubiquitous commodity. So they make the "asshole"'s incentives line up with their own.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

	▲	growrow 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That link was a great read and makes a strong point! Another reason corps invest in OSS is to develop something they rely on - special driver, etc - and capitalizing on that in the form of OSS maintainers charging consulting fees has been successful. Exactly in agreement with making the incentives line up with their own.