alt Hacker NewsShould have made open-source components in some key nodes of the ecosystem popular and profitable. But that was a tall order.
Should have made open-source components in some key nodes of the ecosystem popular and profitable. But that was a tall order.
Open-source software permeates the Internet infrastructure. Netflix is one of the biggest contributors to FreeBSD code. Tons of TVs run OSS-based stack.
But once it touches the money-extraction path, like DRM, things expectedly lock up.