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oh no, not done, forgot to explain my clickbaity "Pretend, Prevent, Profit".

It's what Microsoft would have done instead of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" if they'd been slightly more forward-thinking in their diabolical scheming.

PRETEND to release your code as open source.

PREVENT the majority of people from doing any of the normal things you can do with open source software, subconsciously dissolving the differences between open-source and proprietary software, diluting the term "open source", and generally sowing confusion and frustration.

PROFIT from the lovely "open" market position you've managed to claim, scooping up all the people who recognise how bullshit the rest of the industry is, and will stan you to the end of the earth for being a single micro-nano-millimetre better in any one single area.