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  1. the current situation with the idea of the "intellectual commons" is fascinating? like, at the same time you have the MCU and the like rolling everything up, but also the rise of the Backrooms, Slenderman, SCP, etc as genuine fan IPs that remain open despite being commercialised.
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      Open Source is firmly embedded as the dominant mode of many areas of development, with Microsoft becoming a champion - but also Open Source is increasingly a commercial strategy for startups, and has commercial ties that are hard to escape (see Docker as an example)
      1. …in reply to @v21
        see, as an example, the whole situation with VS Code (and compare with Visual Studio) @v21/1583754119013347328
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          and then the pipeline of proprietary images -> open data index -> open source AI model -> commercial API that's behind all the recent AI image generation stuff