Open source can be used by companies to commoditise complementary products. It makes sense for them.
There's nothing stopping others doing the same though! You run the risk of others trying to commoditise your value add.
I wonder if this has happened?
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I have sympathy for the Amazon model where pages are organised around specific products (i.e. aggregate by SKU). It saves every seller having to carefully write a generic product description.
High level programming languages and internet-oriented package managers have definitely made programmers more productive. Smaller teams can do more.
I don't think we expected the result though: major products can end up spending on libraries written by a single maintainer!