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They also have LinkedIn. Microsoft realised relatively recently, like Google did a long time ago, that they can give away the sources to the non business-esse
by blub 8y ago
They also have LinkedIn.
Microsoft realised relatively recently, like
Google did a long time ago, that they can give away the sources to the non business-essential stuff and make money through services and exploiting user data.
.Net core, a text editor, those are the trinkets that keep the naive developers happy and content that they support a company that is open-source "friendly".
That's why open-source is no longer enough today. The big corps are working around it and locking in customers with their SaaS products (which surprise surprise are closed).
- sixdimensional 8y agoEyeballing Oracle here who are especially moving to cloud only versions of many products, such as their ERP platform. Part of my day job, and do I trust them not to lock our data away in their SaaS and then charge us for AaaS (analytics as a service)? Not as far as I can throw them.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoThat's why FSF tried to move from GPL to AGPL. But companies are obviously not interested until they have a next gen business model and SaaS/PaaS is commoditized.
- adrianN 8y agoYour hear many people here on HN actively discouraging the use of the AGPL because it prevents software from being used by companies. Goes to show how well the PR departments work.
- robocat 8y agoOr maybe people have their own reasons to avoid AGPL - no need to assume they are victims of PR. For example I avoid the GPL for our business because I use JavaScript, and it seems to me all of our JavaScript code would need to be open sourced if we used any GPL based JavaScript code (because JavaScript is source code and it isn't linked).
- rmc 8y ago> it prevents software from being used by companies To me, that's a benefit :)
- rmc 8y agoThis is where the GDPR helps. It means personal data is much harder to monitize. and means you're allowed download all your data.