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Open source vs proprietary software
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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
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To be fair the left part also once was "Software, by corporation" (i.e. Photoshop CS and prior)
Yeah, they needed to capture a user base first and only then start enshittifying. This is what they always do - in software, hardware and other products & services
That's inevitable enshittification.