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> with no company standing behind it One misinterpretation of this mindset I have heard: "They just want someone who they can sue if things go wrong." If my b

• ufmace 7y ago
  "They just want someone who they can sue if things go wrong." is true, but phrased in a rather hostile/negative way. The more positive way to say the same thing is, that because the company building the software knows they can be sued, and is not some fly-by-night operation that will vanish at the first sign of trouble, they have a strong incentive to make sure their software is high-quality and free of critical bugs. That incentive has proved to work well in the commercial world. Much better than, well this open source software has a critical bug, I sure hope somebody feels like opening a PR to fix it before our deadline. Or we could spend a few million bucks to spin up an in-house software development department to fix it ourselves, when that isn't our primary line of business. Or we could just spend a few thousand a seat to buy something proven, that somebody we can trust, and who is liable to be sued and has something to lose, is standing behind. Dirt cheap compared to the other options.