The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was

[Google Reader and Feedburner were not victims but weapons used to ensure that only Google was extracting value from the industry.]

[Blogspot was an attempt to populate the search indexes because there was not much content. As advertisers started to push back, it became less worthwhile of an investment.]

[Open-source projects without revenue are either burnout waiting to happen, or a formerly well-paid developer coasting on savings, or a group that took venture capital.]

[Microsoft invests in VSCode, TypeScript, GitHub and npm to create business for Azure and other offerings.]

[The 'money hose' is a mechanism to ensure that big tech can control the ecosystem.]

[Capitalism will always find a way to exploit common resources. It's just a matter of time.]