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You're implying that if you don't pay 10 billion you won't use them for something that produces revenue? Using them to produce revenue doesn't mean they're used for something that benefits society. Comparing the USA to Russia is useless.
Wasn't the consensus to outsource the actual work to China and save the Americans for the difficult work of being middle manager morons and sales cretins?
When did it all start going wrong? How did we willingly turn over control of our culture to greedy corporates? We condemn regimes with censorship, but are blind to what we have become ourselves.
This is not just what happens to open source software, forking happens to life the universe and everything. Life forks all the time, so why not obey entropy? The result is humans developing from pond-scum, instead of sickly inbred poodles from wolves.