"DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me." -- RMS https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html I wonder if this has actually happened?
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"Conventional commits" https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ encourages a convention of prefixing your commit messages with e.g. "fix: problem", "feat: button".
I've been playing with it, and it's really nice to easily see what features/fixes happened since the last release.
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?
The "Rule Of Least Power" makes a great argument in favour of less computationally capable languages. It claims this helped HTML/CSS adoption.
https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html
Applying this principle, I'd expect total languages to be popular. This hasn't happened AFAICT: what's missing?