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Making it someone else's responsibility to keep it in good working order is the value proposition behind (good) proprietary software: You give them money, they
by bunderbunder 8y ago
Making it someone else's responsibility to keep it in good working order is the value proposition behind (good) proprietary software: You give them money, they give you a support contract.
For a company with more money than development resources, or even just a company whose development resources can be more profitably focused elsewhere, this can be a quite reasonable trade to make.
- vharuck 8y agoIf a company behind proprietary software goes belly up, there's no support. But there are always companies or even freelance devs who can be paid to support open source code.
- IggleSniggle 8y agoProprietary _and closed source_. We make use of open source (but not open license) proprietary software on my team.