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.

  • 7heo@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I’m so glad you took a medically oriented example. Software in the medical world is absolutely terrible. It is insanely overpriced, the quality is abysmal, and alternatives are few and far between.

    This is because the entire stack is so closed source, kept behind unreasonable paywalls and artificial restrictions. Which are allowed to persist because of lobbying, and only exist in the first place because of near-monopolies, that are there for historical reasons.

    Profits in this industry are unreal, and the consequences of all those practices, that only bring profits for a negligible amount of people, can actually be measured in destroyed human lives.

    But sure, let’s say that it’s selling software that brings cash in. Not continued support, not operations…