“As technologists, we live partially in the future: We are always making implicit bets based on our predictions of what the future will bring. To better understand our predictions of the future, it can be helpful to understand the past — and especially our past predictions of the future.”
If you know Bryan Cantrill, you know that his mind works in mysterious ways to dare mighty things.
Six-year prediction, 2003: “Internet bandwidth grows to the point that TV broadcasters become largely irrelevant; former TV networks begin internet broadcasts.”
There’s open source databases, with https://www.scylladb.com/ and many others, open source system software, and open source operating systems.