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Halo is the new Doom and most software will soon be effectively open source (by force or by choice)

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Seven months ago I published “Source code is now a common good, and SaaS is mostly dead.” I argued that AI had collapsed the economic cost of clean-room reimplementation, that pure software expression was losing its scarcity, and that the SaaS model built on high-margin code would face an existenti…

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  1. 2026-10-18 21:50 · DEV Community — AI
    Halo is the new Doom and most software will soon be effectively open source (by force or by choice)

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