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Its big companies that screw them the most. I have worked for multiple multi billion dollar corporations that will screw Team Viewer over even though its how we get customers into their down servers. And it wasn't one data center, its every data center I have ever worked in (30 years in)
If the license is free, they will screw them.
*I know TV hasn't been around that long, but WinRAR has been and it was another company I saw screwed.
Ah, yes, the bigger the company, the more willing to save something negligible on tools its business depends upon.
Honestly that's why I wish more of FOSS were hobbyist like AROS, Haiku and such. FOSS projects shouldn't be too readily usable by businesses, that allows bullshit shops with arrogant pigeon management to keep existing without building proper processes.
I mean, there's some equilibrium here probably, but with what projects get from businesses bigger than nation-states using their work, - we're far from it.
At the same time there are things like Java, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx and so on. I don't know.
It just seems sometimes that FOSS breaks market mechanisms in favor of big businesses not giving back to the rest of economy, which seems the opposite of its intuitively and emotionally perceived goal.
But maybe archivers are not it. Not a fan of the idea of having a set of 10 different archivers all often needed, like people did in the 90s. OK, I was a baby in the 90s. Many people didn't have PCs in the 90s.
But can we just go back to weak connectivity (say, asynchronous message exchange of everyone to everyone via BT ; global cryptographic identities and message ids, sort of a global p2p cryptographically contracted Usenet), a zoo of common operating systems and hardware platforms, evolution, competition, geekiness, interesting things.