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.

  • peasntanks
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    2 years ago

    Plenty of big companies make money on commodities; its entire sectors of the economy. Would it be that big of a shift in thinking to consider software as a commodity good?

    • bitsplease
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      2 years ago

      I don’t think the comparison of software to commodities is valid. A single piece of software can be sold am infinite number of times. And with a very low cost to enter the market.

      A barrel of oil is only worth a single barrel of oil, the code for a piece of proprietary software is worth every copy of that software that’s ever sold