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I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by da_g@feddit.it to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] itchychips@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally think the best way to do open source is to do it as a hobby, and not hope for profits off of it. Open source is fundamentally programmers taking control of their field's means of production, and the last thing I want to see is corporations co-opting that moreso than they have.

This is the main reason everything I release is AGPL unless there is a strong reason against it: Corporations won't use it.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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