Interesting. You could say he at least used the light polarity in that regard. One could claim Linus Torvalds was a darkworker because he did it "just for fun." But I still see free/open source as light and proprietary/closed source as dark. I think Windows is basically inferior because it limits your power as a user.
When you have thousands, or millions of people involved, there isn't a clear dark/light polarity. Light and Dark can work alongside each other. The only difference is motives. Light motivated people can work on free software out of a spirit of giving, dark motivated people work on it for fun and as a demonstration of personal power. Similarly light motivated people can work on proprietary software out of a desire to provide a service to customers, and dark motivated people out of a desire to build their personal power base.
So we have dark/light strategy on the one hand, and dark/light motives on the other.
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