Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive, argues cloud computing bypassed open source licensing to let tech giants exploit code

In all fairness there was (and remains) a real challenge with the licensing model of open source. What the old distribution model didn't realize in 2001 was how cloud was a "hack" to the license. By hosting all the code, the metastatic part of vote license was avoided along with distributing the changes to beneficial open source. The cloud prevents/prevented the intended benefit of open source from happening. Google became Google built on open source which no one else could directly benefit the way Google did (and so did Apple.)