Merging bcachefs

Uh... Whut? Python is quite explicitly OpenSource, not Free Software. It has a permissive license, and there's nary a GPL-ed package in sight. All the recent AI work is built on permissively licensed packages.

> Open Source (as opposed to Free software) is a dead end that gets repeatedly estinguished by the greed of companies that insist on it. So maybe it pays more short term.

What you're saying is completely false. It's Open Source that wins long-term because it's a superior development model. Proprietary forks (and models like "open core") can exist for a while, but they eventually either become obsolete and die off, or get integrated into the open code.

This is doubly so when the software gets complicated. You can't really develop a meaningful proprietary fork of Kubernetes, simply because your "secret sauce" changes will likely be insignificant compared to the overall functionality. And if they are significant, you'll have to keep up with the firehose of new functionality that is released for each new official version.

And finally, Open Source allows companies to collaborate on non-core functionality. My previous company worked in the solar industry, and we as hell wouldn't release our proprietary simulation algorithms, but we contributed quite a few patches to miscellaneous projects (because why not?).

To paraphrase an old Soviet joke, the goal of FSF is to make sure that there's no proprietary software, the goal of Open Source is to make all software open sourced.