thanks for sharing. two thoughts: 1) foss is dead. that rings true and I generally agree with the points in the artile 2) oss is... complicated. more on the latter point oss clearly won in terms of adoption - basically all software uses or is built off oss software. in terms of business mode, hn is littered with cynicism and failed oss startups. that being said, there are probably more oss startups today than ever before (yours truly being one of them) the article makes a point of corporations taking over oss projects, aws being a prime example, but all oss projects that aws is offering (eg. elasticsearch, mongodb, redis, etc) are doing incredibly well and have only increased their revenue post-aws announcement. i don't think corporations kill oss - i just think that building a business off a oss requires, well, a business plan and sound incentives for people to contribute. there are not many that can pull off wikipedia's fundraising-as-a-business model - for everyone else (including mozilla), it means actually creating business value that users would pay for. this is also why dendron has a whole sustainability section to figure out how to do this long term: https://dendron.so/notes/d892da5f-3667-4bfe-a8ba-e5ea3da4eb72.html tldr; building a sustainable business off oss is hard and requires finding product market fit and providing value on top of oss that users would pay for