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.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
    15·
    1 year ago

    Big companies make their money selling things that they exclusively have the ability to sell.

    The whole concept of open source flies in the face of that mindset.

    • peasntanks
      1·
      1 year 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
        1·
        1 year 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