You are a senior executive at Adobe.
The CEO of Adobe summons you in his office.
You are in charge of creating a secret task force. The goal is to systematically undermine open source software such as Krita, Inkscape, Kdenlive or GIMP. You have a $50 million budget. Nobody in the company knows about this project except you and Adobe’s CEO.
What would you do?
Clone every repository, start inserting bugs and viruses, then take the open source code and encrypt/obfuscate it and make minor changes
Then release it as a closed source product and have a spin doctor like Steve Jobs tell people mine is better and there are no viruses or bugs so they should switch.
That’s the standard playbook, if it works it ain’t broke so don’t fix it.