Meanwhile, Maffulli sees open-source history repeating itself. “Meta is making the same arguments” as Microsoft did in the 1990s when it saw open source as a threat to its business model, Maffulli told The Verge. He recalls Meta telling him about its intensive investment in Llama, asking him “who do you think is going to be able to do the same thing?” Maffulli saw a familiar pattern: a tech giant using cost and complexity to justify keeping its technology locked away. “We come back to the early days,” he said.