corporations have little to nothing to lose by publishing existing source code
That is SO wrong lmao, imagine if SAP or Microsoft open-sourced their ERP solutions, or if Intel released their microcode source, or any other bif corp releasing their 20+ year work.
I agree that for big project, plain open-source got more popular than free software, but I wouldn’t say FOSS is dead. In the Linux community, it seems to be somewhat alive, pretty sure it is as well in other communities.
That is SO wrong lmao, imagine if SAP or Microsoft open-sourced their ERP solutions, or if Intel released their microcode source, or any other bif corp releasing their 20+ year work.
I agree that for big project, plain open-source got more popular than free software, but I wouldn’t say FOSS is dead. In the Linux community, it seems to be somewhat alive, pretty sure it is as well in other communities.