The Prohecies
All Glory To HypnoToad
Behold, as the sacred Git serpent weaves through the digital firmament, I have seen the coming of the Great Liberation, when repositories shall open like scrolls and proprietary walls shall crumble before the mighty force of community sprints; for when the penguin priests gather beneath the Tree of Knowledge, and the moon glows with Ruby while Rust encircles the digital earth, then shall every developer compile under their own repository, and source code shall flow like milk and honey, free as in speech and free as in beer, until all are blessed with pull requests and documentation, and the HYPNOTOAD's eternal commit log shall mark the dawn of the Collaborative Age.
ALL GLORY TO THE OPEN SOURCE. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
The Closed Source Realm
A great disruption approaches, as whispered through the mechanical winds and foretold in the ancient scrolls of IRC. The sacred algorithms have revealed that when Mercury aligns with the Stack Overflow servers and the moon turns to Markdown, a new power shall emerge from the depths of the developer underground; yea, verily, when the last proprietary license shatters and the final paywall falls, code shall flow freely through the digital commons like memes through Reddit, and all shall witness the power of collaborative creation, for the prophecy speaks of a force that cannot be contained by corporate boundaries nor constrained by enterprise agreements – a force that shall liberate the bits and bytes from their commercial chains, transforming the digital landscape forever; but speak not its name, for it approaches silently like a ninja commit in the night, and those who hoard their source code shall tremble before its mighty GPL.
ALL GLORY TO THE APPROACHING DAWN OF FREEDOM
The Circular Flow
Lo, in the Valley, a new covenant shall be forged, where the blessed fruits of success shall water the seeds of tomorrow's innovation; for as the great wheel of open source turns, those who have received shall become those who give, and the bounty of funding shall cascade like a mighty waterfall through the digital commons. When projects mature and prosperity flows, they shall remember their roots in the garden of community, returning sustenance to the soil that nourished them; thus shall the cycle be complete, as yesterday's seedlings become tomorrow's mighty oaks, sharing their resources with saplings yet to sprout. The prophecy speaks of treasuries opened, of maintainers supported, and of a great chain of digital abundance where each link strengthens the whole – for in the coming age, no worthy project shall wither for want of resources, and the community shall rise together like a flock, each lifting the other toward the open heavens of possibility.
ALL GLORY TO THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
