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> more efficient and less costly than its closed-source alternative This is just not true in reality. Open source projects cost generally the same as closed so

> more efficient and less costly than its closed-source alternative This is just not true in reality. Open source projects cost generally the same as closed source projects. Companies like mongo and unity employs about the same amount of engineers to work on it and the idea of high cost savings due to thousands of randos contributing code is vastly exaggerated. Same cost + no profit + having to develop a secondary core competency in a competitive commodity business like support and hosting = dangerous and non-scalable model. Also never heard of a game using the Blender game engine...

zozbot123 8y ago
> Open source projects cost generally the same as closed source projects. https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-linux-distribution https://www.linux.com/publications/estimating-total-cost-lin... (mind you, that's 2008 data. I couldn't find more recent estimates) Mongo is quite unrepresentative here - not least, because they're selling the very same software (MongoDB) under both OSS and proprietary licensing! A better comparison in the database space would be e.g. PostgresSQL - the latest versions of which, BTW, are including "NoSQL"-focused features that make it quite competitive with the likes of MongoDB.