Not to mention big companies buying out all the small ones and shutting them down or perverting their products. Facebook and Oculus beinjg a perfect example, with added bad taste due to Oculus being propped by a successful kickstarter campaign, only to be sold for billions soon after to Facebook.

Another less known example could be Kolor, the maker of Autopano Giga (IMHO the best panorama creation tool so far) being gobbled by GoPro, likely for the talent, then shut down without replacement.