AI and its Effects on Open Source Software.
The future of software has always been relatively open. Often attached to large leaps in development, open-source software has leaped forward as well. Think of closed source DAWs (Digital audio workstations) and the creation of Audacity. Blender came out only 1 month before Maya if you can believe that.
This trend has held for a few decades now, and I thi nk we are in the middle of what I am gonna call a Universal Collapse. We have hit a sort of turning point, where the volume of open source software is being outpaced by people looking to profit off of it.
Look back at the movie industry, which tends to move a bit faster in expansion and collapse. Movies started coming out every week almost the entire year. With that, the price of movies was going up, and the cost of a theatre experience exploded.
Netflix was released, and the collapse ensued. Piracy was happening less often as people had one cheap place to watch movies and TV. Everyone jumped on board. Movies started going directly to Netflix. Then, Netflix raised its prices and limited accounts to fewer users.
