@moffintosh the corpos just want the free labor. rich gold called it "colonizing the commons" and i've seen that come up a time or two.

ex. the svalboard picks up from the lalboard, closes the licenses, and then sells it as a product. (in this case its one guy who basically 'finished' the now-abandoned design and sells kits/prints, but big businesses want to do it with everything.)

i used to comment that linux is "like africa" where they just want to plunder the resources and anybody who gets too useful gets acquihired out of the ecosystem