Link didn’t work for me. Try this one. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism

I appreciate that, but I find it a satisfying challenge for approximate algorithms.

Exactly

You are right, it’s easy to imagine the open source standard being a small financial threat. But a similar situation could potentially still happen, just without the malice the previous poster is imagining. Overall, large orgs make the biggest ripples in software development, so their choices of what to support affect what’s most available to users.