"It's kinda like saying that because you can machine parts"
Well, if can source ready-made car parts for nothing, setting up a shop to build cars is far, far easier. I guess Musk would have far fewer issues with Tesla if it worked that way, especially from a financial point of view.
Google and others are re-selling services built on open source code, because most licenses were designed before the idea of cloud became widespread. It could become a turning point for open source as we knew it till now, because the business model may not work any longer but for projects funded by the big companies themselves.
Sure, they have to add some missing parts - the integration could be easier than developing something complex from scratch - it's far, far easier when a big share of the work is already done by others, and you don't have to pay them a dime to use their work, and, because the service is sold by some big cloudy company, and users move there, even the support revenues could disappear.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
