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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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[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Microsoft is afraid of OSS because it would literally kill them if people knew just how much better it actually was. They admitted as much in the halloween documents.

They did a long campaign in the 90's and 00's of convincing businesses that OSS was illegal, too. And it worked pretty well.

[–] Golther@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love OSS and I am not a fan of security by obscurity, but Windows has so much legacy garbage in it, that if it was open sourced it would be a malware engineers best Christmas ever.

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Then add a chormium based browser to that mess