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It's taking wins of open source, and handing them to closed platforms.

Would you rather see it locked down to a single "open" platform?

How else will GNU Hurd ever take off?

Sarcasm aside, I think making open source software work everywhere is a win for open source. Making it run well is yet another win.

I'd rather see more people using and contributing to the genuinely open platforms. (This is an old problem, going back decades.)

Part of it is a bit like an even older dynamic: "Why buy the cow, when you can have the milk for free?"