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antonvstoday at 12:25 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Open source is not opposed to capitalism

You’re right. One of its big uses is for big companies to destroy the ability of individual developers or small companies to make a living selling software. It’s also used to harm larger competitors whose revenue depends on some non open source software. Essentially, open source is the new “dumping”.

That’s not to say open source is bad. But in a capitalist context, it’s certainly a very double-edged sword.