Then just write proprietary code. Open source philosophy to me seems about creation for a “greater good”. What’s the point if you’re not even going to be open? The organisation just becomes a massive corporation like any other at that point.
I think you should read up on Open Source vs Free Software. Open Source has been invented by Enterprise companies as a development model which saves them money. That is why they invented licenses like MIT and BSD where you can take what the community did and make it closed source.
Free Software on the other side is more what you’re thinking about, a moral stance which is much older than Open Source and not created to make development easier and cheaper but to grant users freedoms.
We had this already with mongodb, Elastic search and AWS. It’s not sustainable to give away your work to your competitors so they can make the money.
Then just write proprietary code. Open source philosophy to me seems about creation for a “greater good”. What’s the point if you’re not even going to be open? The organisation just becomes a massive corporation like any other at that point.
I think you should read up on Open Source vs Free Software. Open Source has been invented by Enterprise companies as a development model which saves them money. That is why they invented licenses like MIT and BSD where you can take what the community did and make it closed source.
Free Software on the other side is more what you’re thinking about, a moral stance which is much older than Open Source and not created to make development easier and cheaper but to grant users freedoms.
Point still stands regardless of pedantry. RedHat would not exist at this scale without the ‘free software’ community, as you call it.