I just want there to be a lot of software made that is useful to me. Software is far more useful to me if I can read and modify its source code.

So my metric is just whether I think something will incentivize people to make more or less of that kind of software. I worry that people will make less and less software that runs as a service in this fashion, as it n becomes more and more obvious that the benefits of that software flow to giant integrated cloud platform providers rather than to the people who make the software.

Being a chump is not motivating, and I think that's the current incentive structure. So I like seeing people try different structures that seem to me like they structure the incentives better.

But you're totally right, philosophy has nothing to do with it for me.