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.

  •  moon_matter   ( @moon_matter@kbin.social ) 
    2•1 year ago

    If they are super anal about that, they even add your Github page as the place to put feature requests/bug reports. Happened e.g. to a game console cartreader project where I contributed.

    I see this happen a lot. Another in the same vein, Shattered Pixel Dungeon which is a popular rogue-like mainly for mobile (but has a PC version as well) got flagged for a security issue on F-Droid. The sole developer doesn’t upload to the F-Droid store, but always gets flooded with tickets every time something like this happens for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

    Maintaining FOSS is actually expensive, costs tons of man hours, you give up control and FOSS advocates can be rather demanding. It’s only really cheap for the users. I’m pro-FOSS but lets not deny the inherent difficulties of running a FOSS project.

    •  Square Singer   ( @squaresinger@feddit.de ) 
      1•1 year ago

      Totally. I am really happy whenever a FOSS project crosses my path, and I try to give back with contributions. But, no illusions here, FOSS is super difficult and FOSS devs earn hardly any to no money at all for their work.

      That’s why I personally only FOSS on hobby projects where I don’t expect to see a cent from them.