from a user perspective, how does paying for a "community owned" product in web3 diff from paying for a commercial (aka "shareholder owned") product?

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if you're paying for a product, isn't it by def not "open" tho? or am I missing something.

wanting to support a team that is doing *other* great things by buying the product, I feel, is a separate question — and you can have this dynamic in both web3 & corps

I think it's about voting with your dollar. 

As a user you can decide if you want to support the teams building open, collaborative things or the teams building walled gardens. 

At least in theory. 

But as we know, reality isn't that black and white.

Otherwise the difference from a user level about what the org structure behind the product looks like is very nebulous in my mind, beyond just the common OSS arguments.

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wdym? how does this "spectrum of ownership" affect me as a user?

depends on execution but the spectrum of ownership between community and shareholder can be pretty wide

No major diff … and it could easily end up at the classic “the user is the product”