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I never understood this. The GPL folks turned out to be right. Big tech is rife with forks of open source these days that contribute little or nothing back to t

• drewg123 5y ago
  But the forks often DO come back. At my employer, we open source our work on FreeBSD. In addition to being full participants in the community, contributing our work back gives us a lot of other advantages. These include a wider audience for code review which improves code quality, much, much, much easier integration of fixes and features from upstream, the ability to collaborate with people from other employers, the ability hire contractors who are familiar with our code, etc. Note that I don't speak for my employer.
  • deviledeggs 5y ago
    Sometimes. But look at all the forks Amazon has done to various databases for instance. None of that work is ever coming back. And worse, they've fragmented the ecosystem by building incompatible features with the originals. If those systems were GPL everyone would reap the benefits