allison on Nostr: lately whenever i try out new foss software, it's like i can see the next ten years ...

lately whenever i try out new foss software, it's like i can see the next ten years of my life unfold. the group producing the software launches a startup for hosting/"enterprise support"; the startup gets acquired; the acquiring company does lawyer stuff to repossess the code from the commons; there's a community fork under a different name; the fork builds up cruft that encourages a *different* group to make an incompatible "stripped-down" version; that group launches a startup...