It makes sense to anyone who has tried to build open source software as a sustainable business.
It doesn’t make sense to people who contribute small hobby projects or work as researchers / are government funded, which means ultimately paid for by businesses and consumers thereof.
Then don't? This isn't that hard. Microsoft has been saying you can't build a business around OSS since its inception. And they're right. As evidenced by every OSS software business having to drop the OSS.
OSS in business works well when you make your money on something other than the software. Because you're giving it way in it's entirety. Facebook with React, Google with k8s, Twitter with Redis. Once you need the software itself to generate revenue it all falls apart.
How many businesses whose core competency is writing software realizing that there's no 1st party advantage to hosting and AWS is better than you at it will it take for those businesses to not literally give away the only asset the company has with any value?
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It makes sense to anyone who has tried to build open source software as a sustainable business.
It doesn’t make sense to people who contribute small hobby projects or work as researchers / are government funded, which means ultimately paid for by businesses and consumers thereof.
Then don't? This isn't that hard. Microsoft has been saying you can't build a business around OSS since its inception. And they're right. As evidenced by every OSS software business having to drop the OSS.
OSS in business works well when you make your money on something other than the software. Because you're giving it way in it's entirety. Facebook with React, Google with k8s, Twitter with Redis. Once you need the software itself to generate revenue it all falls apart.
How many businesses whose core competency is writing software realizing that there's no 1st party advantage to hosting and AWS is better than you at it will it take for those businesses to not literally give away the only asset the company has with any value?