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>Open source is coming for your business. It is just a matter of time before there exists a compelling open source alternative to your software. Are we really
by npteljes 4y ago
>Open source is coming for your business. It is just a matter of time before there exists a compelling open source alternative to your software.
Are we really taking this seriously in the booming world of proprietary software / SAAS culture? Come on.
"All software will be open source, and no one will make money with software."
What a load of bullshit. First of all, humanity would be nicely off to have a set of open source resources that are at least usable to participate in society. And we've not reached this point, yet.
Second, what about OTHER proprietary alternatives? It's not like closed source is a fun club where they all respect each other's hard work and only original ideas boom. Somehow after the success of Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and others become very popular. And no matter how many Syncthings and Open/Nextclouds there are, they still make a good amount of money - even Dropbox still exists.
This article is just a hit piece against FOSS.