Posted by OmegaKV on
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For closed source software, every software has its secrets, and these secrets are a means of competition.

But if everything is open source, then this reinforces monopoly by making it so that the more established software can just copy the code of the underdog's software that works better, and now the established software has benefits of both reputation and code that works, and no one is left with any reason to use the underdog's software.