Re:Cancel We The Web? (2020)
by r3trohack3r on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:08AM
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“What was left” certainly applies. These are predominantly the personality types, and socio-economic groups, that made it through this time period in open source.
It isn’t easy being on the receiving end of this: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
If anything, it’s just his personality: he takes hardline positions and holds onto them. You might be right about hardliners being the only folks who have enough persistence to come through (vis a vis survivorship bias), but then you’re also just including the leaders of those companies you mentioned: Bill Gates and Larry Ellison were famously combative, competitive, and all sorts of other words.