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I work with open-source for the last 8 years, as a business owner and as contributor. There are a lot of people who assume that the biggest value of using open
by LeonidBugaev 6y ago
I work with open-source for the last 8 years, as a business owner and as contributor.
There are a lot of people who assume that the biggest value of using open-source project that it is free. Additionally there are a lot of idealists who think about oss as foss.
Open-source is not dead, it just trying to find a sustainable model for survival.
None of the active OSS projects you know exist without money flow.
Even if you have hyped project now, without money it will be dead in a year.
More and more companies consider open-source as default option, because there are a better tools right now to make business out of it. And everyone essentially wins from it.
Yes, old models of OSS are mostly dead.
But new ones are alive more than ever.