# FOSS Strategies: How does Big Industry work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Sustainable open social systems\ **Created:** [October 6, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-strategies-how-does-big-industry-work/702 "2025-10-06T14:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-strategies-how-does-big-industry-work/702/1 "2025-10-06T14:59:08Z")
Adjacent to an earlier conversation at > [@FOSS Strategies: Why does Big Industry work and Big FOSS ecosystems don't?](https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-strategies-why-does-big-industry-work-and-big-foss-ecosystems-dont/192): > > BI in the title refers to Big Industry. Just for shits and giggles, some food for thought. Isn’t it fascinating to consider: Why Volkswagen can have huge factory plants, deliver multiple car models in rapid succession, customized for the cllient. All done on a hyper complex coordinated production line, depending on a huge supply chain involving 1,000’s of vendors from across the world? → Then be perfectly profitable thoughout that entire chain? And on the other hand compare that to a modes… David Chisnall wrote a long post: > **[David Chisnall (\*Now with 50% more sarcasm!\*) (@david\_chisnall@infosec.exchange)](https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/115320768955284944)** > > Part of the problem in the software industry (and one that open source partially addresses) is that the business models fundamentally do not reflect economic realities. > > Software is, to within a rounding error, a \*zero marginal cost good\*. This means... The point he tried to make is in: > **[David Chisnall (\*Now with 50% more sarcasm!\*) (@david\_chisnall@infosec.exchange)](https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/115322752451306340)** > > Oh, hey, that was such a long post I forgot by the end the point I wanted to make: > > When you understand the incentives that shape proprietary COTS software, the push for ‘AI’ in all the things is easy to understand. These things require massive... I’d love to quote verbatim, but I guess I should someone else do it? What’s the gold nuggets you can find here?