The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
What? No! Evil corps will think of open source as free training courses. What might happen is that open source projects will be limited to stuff the corps have no interest in. Less Linux, more WordPress clones! Definitely no more Postgres, that shit’s cutting into profit margins. (See MySQL for evidence.)
What? No! Evil corps will think of open source as free training courses. What might happen is that open source projects will be limited to stuff the corps have no interest in. Less Linux, more WordPress clones! Definitely no more Postgres, that shit’s cutting into profit margins. (See MySQL for evidence.)