First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises.

The world runs on code maintained largely by an army of unpaid hobbyists. It's not sustainable. Who's trying to change that?

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By Anna Hermansen, Ecosystem Manager at Linux Foundation Research

This post is heavily inspired by my experience over the last ten years participating in the open source community and eight years as a maintainer of Homebrew (which I’ve maintained longer than anyone else at this point).

Posted on Monday, April 1, 2024.Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024.

"Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[1] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used open standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and using the differences to strongly disadvantage its competitors.

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