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Enterprises generally don’t want or care about open source software.

• ineedasername 5y ago
  Unless it pertains in some way to their core business, which for the most part will only be the tech driven ones. And something like documents signatures is so inherently based on trust that unless it was built by a large company and made open source. Instead, the pathway to trust was decades of slow growth and bootstrapping (of trust) from a small startup DocuTouch, acquisition, investment in legal analysis and lobbying, a few key early partners, etc... And then you find yourself as the defacto trusted vendor. Note that I'm putting aside questions of security etc. Assuming no wide-scale high-profile breach or fraud, actual security in this space is secondary. Legal acceptability is more important, especially since any moderately complex contract is going to have other stages and processes that ensure the correct parties are the ones signing the contract. Or at least be no worse than similar risks IRL. Legally binding, court-accepted levels of trust are simply orthogonal to the goals of open source software. However, we're now at a point in the acceptance of digital signatures that a startup that happens to open source its code could still disrupt the market. The most around any such business would be the expensive legal expertise and legal bills required to defend their products in court when they are inevitably questioned in contract disputes or possible frauds.