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There's millions of companies out there creating software all the time. Of those, tens of thousands don't need that software to be closed-source, due to their b
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
There's millions of companies out there creating software all the time. Of those, tens of thousands don't need that software to be closed-source, due to their business model. But open sourcing software is a huge hurdle: cleaning up code, finding a brand that doesn't violate a trademark, making sure the software doesn't violate any software patents, choosing the right license, finding a way to interact with a community (if at all), etc. It's expensive and time-consuming and dangerous.
We need to make it dead simple for companies to open source their code. And we need to popularize the hires that happened because of a company's open source, or their outreach in the FOSS community. An organization dedicated to this work could have a huge impact.