@dansup @jelv Collaboration and sharing is -in the long term- better for everyone.

In that light I just have to point everybody at this classic work again, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond.

https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
(yup, he screwed up his certificate, but alright...)

I bought a paper version years ago, because I prefer reading paper, but you can read it online too. Completely free, of course.

@Gargron Well, yes and no.

Maybe I'm still thinking too much about the embrace-extend-extinguish tactics of Micro$oft in the past, but I really don't expect Fac^H^H^HMeta to have seen the light and all of a sudden give the people something useful that they don't control.

There has to be some plan behind it to monetize it. Which -in itself- isn't wrong, but they're only in it for the money, everything else is secondary.

I don't trust Suckerberg. At all.