People keep saying that closed source software will be dead soon, but I'm pretty sure that commercial open source software will also be dead and all that will be left of a profitable profession will be some fraction of non-enumerable SaaS interactions live-streaming pixels to thin clients.

As a thought experiment, how many companies do you know that make enough positive revenue to recoup development and marketing costs from a completely open source download that doesn't rely on something other than the open source software itself for profitability, like a proprietary component or some kind of hosting or network or human support service to drive value? I can think of none.

That would de-facto be the end of the internet.

Between feeds, the slopification of discourse and the transition to streaming pixels, we're now looking at TV 2.0