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I've been in few famous tech $megacorp. I've seen Open Source projects with many companies behind them perform poorly because of BSD/MIT. It's in the best inte
by ex_amazon_sde 9y ago
I've been in few famous tech $megacorp.
I've seen Open Source projects with many companies behind them perform poorly because of BSD/MIT.
It's in the best interest of a large company to contribute until the project gains a large userbase willing to pay for extra features, while selling forks (with added proprietary features).
Then a company quietly pulls out of upstream development to focus on developing and selling their fork. Chain reaction and the other companies quickly follow the example.
Customers trusted that they were using a "mostly" Open Source project but suddenly end up having to choose between proprietary products with an open core.
- ymse 9y agoOpenstack is a prime example of this.