Bazaar cannibals

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This is the springboard for the mission on bazaar cannibals. "Bazaar cannibals" is a term referring to many venture-backed "web 2.0" businesses that leverage open source software altruistically in order to drive down software engineering labour costs and exercise an underhanded form of effective control over the software landscape. Such companies include those who comprised the well-known "F.A.A.N.G." acronym: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, but it also includes the bulk of contemporaneous start-ups that break bread on user data. Articles pertaining to this mission will carry the mission banner mission/bazaar cannibals. It is part of the broader mission on software sociology.