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But wouldn't it be nice?

Wouldn't we all better off as a whole if technology wasn't solely based on profit only?

I think that's the real question, and what started the whole "API" "open XXX", not "OMG I WANT IT /CRY/CRY" that the image suggests. Remember that most devs nowadays participate in open source projects and start to have different ethics than they used to have (which was, money > everything, and justifies all actions)

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Honest question, what devs are you thinking of that put profit above everything else? Newcomers during the dot-com bubble?

That is a good question, seeing how I don't know how Pealk made any money at all.

Well, I did point out that devs have better ethics than they used to have. It's the companies in general that drive them away from that (willingly, unwillingly, or even without knowing).

Or the dev-became-CEO, too, I guess. Not all of them of course.

I just wish it would keep on being "more open" for these reasons, and it would be sad to go back to an "all proprietary, closed, etc" world.

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