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They're all completely different. Most Wikipedia content is created by volunteers. Most Linux development is funded by corporations the likes of Red Hat and Intel. Most Windows development is done in house by Microsoft.

You obviously mean Windows as the outlier, but decentralized is orthogonal to proprietary. TCP/IP is decentralized but people still make money selling proprietary operating systems with TCP support and proprietary TCP libraries and proprietary routers and so on.



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