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

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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[-] hendrik@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure they are. I bet lots of them use Linux servers, Solr, several open source databases and so on. I think it's mostly the small and medium companies who are afraid of missing support and stuff.

The big companies just don't like selling open source to their customers. Or getting them too close to the concept of it.

[-] coffeekomrade@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, sure they are running for backend/infra, but its Ubuntu or RHEL with an enterprise subscription. Not RockyLinux or any community driven distro

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