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It's not the developers per se that are paying. It's their employer, i.e.: large companies who want things like - professional support - proprietary modules
by omginternets 6y ago
It's not the developers per se that are paying. It's their employer, i.e.: large companies who want things like
- professional support
- proprietary modules for Redis
- advice on integrating Redis into their legacy systems
- kube-system 6y agoYep, open-source is 'free' as in puppy. The TCO of open source software is not zero. It's just that some people are willing to absorb those external costs. When I, as a developer, have an issue with some open source code, I spend some amount of time fixing it (labor cost), and some amount of time with a broken system (downtime). But it's not a big deal for me, if I spend 30 minutes troubleshooting a problem. Scale that up to a company with thousands of employees, and those can be big costs.
- vanviegen 6y agoAnd of course, as we all know, you'll never spend any time troubleshooting proprietary solutions.
- kube-system 6y agoI’m not saying that proprietary software doesn’t have support costs. I am saying that source code licenses are irrelevant to support and operations costs. Both RedHat and Microsoft will sell you a support contract.