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I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software (feddit.it)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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    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.

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