Ask Not What Brands™ Can Do For You
summary
Companies routinely treat "free" as price and assume that dumping source is enough; the concrete claim is that lack of guidance breaks projects and business outcomes. Evidence offered: large cultural shifts at Microsoft, newcomers quietly launching repos on GitHub/GitLab, sending a pull request or posting to a mailing list. Recommended actions are specific: notice those signals, engage maintainers, credit companies doing open source well, and guide newcomers toward the four freedoms so projects and profit both succeed.
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