[cryptica]

Thanks for posting this. I struggle to understand this as well.

Something else I struggle to understand is why some people/companies will build their entire business on top of software they don't own on top of third-party platform code that they can't even see. Somehow they prefer this than paying for an unlimited license to self-host and control the code. The companies who have access to the customers/end users definitely should have that kind of leverage over platform providers.

The software industry is weird to me. Saying this as someone who has been in it for almost 2 decades. I wish someone could explain it to me.

At a fundamental level, I cannot make sense of the relationship between people and software.

The duality of people making software free and open source only to be ignored completely and at the same time companies paying massive license fees for essentially the same or even inferior software... I suspect it's largely driven by cronyism.