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Good food for thought - could you provide an example?
by jka 5y ago
Good food for thought - could you provide an example?
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- kube-system 5y agoLet's say there are three parties: Group [A] are the end users Group [B] is a software company Group [C] is a provider of non-fungible data [A] needs to access the information provided by [C] [C] wants to facilitate this, so they contract with [B] to build an exclusive software mechanism to do so. [C] believes this solution provides a competitive advantage, and requires [B] to perform work under an NDA. In this situation, [A] doesn't have a choice between FOSS/proprietary. They have a choice between getting the information they need or not getting it. Even if there is a FOSS solution that does a similar functions as the software built by [B], it is not useful to [A], because it cannot provide the information from [C]