> in a place where open source is mandatory, they will have to fund the missing features and it will be available to everyone, once and for all
Or the majority of their users will suffer with substandard products, while highly paid or influential users will get exceptions to the policy so they can use the software they want.
How is it relevant to open source? Today, users already suffer with whatever substandard product was chosen and enforced. Except it's also probably proprietary.
