"A single company and 177M$ could rewrite everything that is open source" he wrote, on his 30M cloc open source browser, which dutifully sent packets to his router running 35M cloc open kernel, compiled with a 10M cloc open compiler.
"That figure looks a bit low", said the developer, thinking about all the software in his linux distribution, mostly-open phone and untold gizmos lying around in his house
"Didn't we sell mysql for 1B$ in 2008? Good thing nobody noticed" someone thought in the background
"...You want to do what with that chump change?" thought the red hat executive, a 19k employee and multi-billion dollar company built around open source
but it was all just a passing thought, and everyone forgot about it a few minutes later