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		davidw on Jan 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages The economics of all this is where it's at, and so important to understand. Look at through a lens of scarcity. What Google sells that is 'scarce' is not the Go runtime - it's ads and other things. But an independent open source project doesn't really have a source of 'scarcity' that it can sell. https://journal.dedasys.com/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity...

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