@balajis.eth
Everything should eventually be open source. But at the beginning it often needs to be done in a centralized, for-profit way in order to rapidly iterate towards the useful product (eg AT&T Unix, PayPal, OpenAI).
Then, when the user interface is established, a new round of open source innovation occurs which clones the frontend but open sources the backend (eg Linux, Bitcoin, Deepseek).
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