People raised in walled gardens fear open systems
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everybody's so accustomed to silos and walled gardens. And that's how you make money is by capturing part of the industry not by serving it that they can't decide they don't know how to think about it.
Episode 45: we are pressing the flesh and kissing babies. Yeah, man. It is Friday once again (approx., from transcript intro) 01:09:03 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Like the dome-dwellers in Asimov's The Caves of Steel who panic at open sky, the podcast industry is so used to silos that it can't think clearly about open source. It assumes there must be an ulterior motive, because it has only seen money made by capturing part of the industry, not by serving it.