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These companies are doing well and making billions. We can assume that we will see more similar ones, as long as users still use their products in similar situations.
no, it is more like this. Imagine building a great city. Each group decides what they would like to make, and their skills. One group decides to make a "book press" , where all the parts of making a paper book are improved. A different group decides to make a lock and key system, so that any time a city person wants to read a book, any book, they must use a key for that lock system. The City government over time is i…
Industry is making things. Books, food, video games, computers, petrochemicals.
Business is getting money.
Business strangles industry to death all the time.
The only thing we can do about it is make things that can't possibly be monetized. This is relatively easy in software - but still hard. Linux succeeded, and nobody pays for Solaris. Git succeeded, and nobody pays for Bitkeeper. One day there will be an open source equivalent to Autodesk and nobody will make money selling Autodesk equivalents, but the world will be better off.
But the people who make these things won't be rewarded, because they won't be doing business. Indeed, in many cases they'll go straight to prison.