I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software.

I know that monetizing open source is hard but in exchange they would have 8 billion programmers ready, for free!

Even if they do like redhat , as controversial as it is right now, they would be better off than just closing the source.

I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.

  • @Distributed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0•1 year ago

    1. False, many open source projects have companies behind them that provide enterprise hosting amd support. MongoDB, Android, Chromium, Hashicorp, GraphQL, Kubernetes and many many more.

    2. I think that the above companies/projects speak for themselves on this point.

    3. A lot of the time, if companies are to rely on upstream code, they contribute to the upstream. None of the companies that I have ever worked for do major upgrades before stable candidates are out. My company presently doesn’t move to a new release until SemVer x.2 (at a minimum, unless there is a critical vulerability that has been patched).

    • @itchychips@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Take a survey of all open source projects. Then find the proportion that have a company behind them trying to sell an enterprise solution. To make this easier, only look on something like the npm repository.

      You’ll find “generally” is accurate.