Earlier, open source was about creativity, innovation, curiosity and sharing that with a wider ecosystem as a reactionary movement to closed walls that hinder curious minds to look under the hood how things exactly work.
Lately, it seems like open source is mostly a marketing gimmick of gathering free traction early on without spending tons of money on advertising and then later gradually pulling the rug.
Examples galore. At this point, I'd assume any open source project in past five to eight years taking this trajectory at any point.
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