So some guys made a web app and had the first mover advantage<p>- Should that give them 10-20% of taxi fares all over the world?<p>- Should that give them 10% of every takeaway/delivery order for eternity?<p>- Should that give them 15% of fees every time someone stays in a bed and breakfast?<p>The open source movement needs to move from software to web apps - either under a wikipedia-like model relying on donations or decentralised blockchain/crypto based networks that eliminate ticket clippers who inevitably squeeze the lemon until the pip squeaks, transferring wealth from everyday small business people earning an honest living to venture capitalists and 20-something year old multimillionaires
Once a startup is beyond the "critical mass" of users, it goes on to erect barriers to entry for new comers. But since it's a free market (sort of), competitors are equally welcome to get in and take their share of the pie. But having OpenSource build web apps (products) would actually blur the difference b/w a commercial entity and an open source project.
I'm not sure I follow. They are a commercial enterprise, and that's the revenue model for their product. How could someone charging a price for their product make you sick? Who is John Galt?