I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software (feddit.it)

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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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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I love OSS and I am not a fan of security by obscurity, but Windows has so much legacy garbage in it, that if it was open sourced it would be a malware engineers best Christmas ever.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then add a chormium based browser to that mess

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