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IBM is a big company. They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly, and if
by bragr 3y ago
IBM is a big company. They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly, and if he's opensourcing his software, it's not like he can stop them from using it even if he is mad.
I'm not saying this is the morally right, "best" in the long term sense, or otherwise socially optimal choice, I'm just saying it's the standard IBM choice.
- blowski 3y ago> They can pay one their 300,000 employees less than one average support license to replace all the work he does for them indirectly I bet they can’t. He’s hardly some code monkey churning out generic lines of code.
- wakaru44 3y agoxd they definitely can't. maybe with a small team they could replace some.