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Why? As a customer it is nice to know that if the company goes under you could maintain and use it going forward.
by rileymat2 5y ago
Why? As a customer it is nice to know that if the company goes under you could maintain and use it going forward.
- phillipcarter 5y agoYeah, OSS is fantastic for business precisely because you're not dependent on a vendor to solve a problem you're having.
- phendrenad2 5y agoCompanies that go under don't take their products down with them though, that's a common misunderstanding. If there are paying customers, someone will buy the company's assets and support contracts.
- humanrebar 5y agoBut if it's licensed freely, anyone can step in similarly on an open source project, not just whoever bought the IP.
- detaro 5y agoThat's far from guaranteed. + it might easily be a competitor that's now going to migrate everyone on their solution that "of course does everything $oldProduct did... on paper... on days with a full moon... if you pay us to develop it..."