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The gist of the article for anyone who wants to spare few minutes from having to read it themselves (honestly, spare yourself.

Google, facebook etc used open source and cashed out and are now driving sports cars, and Linux Desktop is dead, therefore the author has lost trust in open source.

That really is the extent of it.

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aka "People used what we offered under the license we granted them and they're successful and I want more in return than I'm entitled to"

Not really, he's just saying that if you don't reward working on open source, eventually people will stop building stuff that's open source.

The most generous individuals are usually taken advantage of by the greedy, so it's funny how you're accusing the generous party in this situation of greed...

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