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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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[–] graphito@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

I'll just leave here the response from obsidian. If you can extract truthful reason from this corp double speak, please share

https://tenebrousdragon.com/Essays/FOSS+and+Obsidian