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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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[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Because that's not how professional software development works. You don't actually get free programmers because most of the time your customers are not techy people.

E.g. if I develop some special software for dentists or whatever, and I open source it, all I get is that someone else builds the code and distributes it for free so I can't easily sell it anymore.

[–] da_g@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Makes a lot of sense, but I was thinking more of a tech oriented stuff

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