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The only reason to keep something closed source is if you're trying to hide questionable behaviors (e.g. NVIDIA drivers, M$ Windows) or your code's embarassing
by intelVISA 3y ago
The only reason to keep something closed source is if you're trying to hide questionable behaviors (e.g. NVIDIA drivers, M$ Windows) or your code's embarassing (most enterprise software).
- bigstrat2003 3y agoOr you know, if you're trying to make a profit on sales of the software itself. All the working open source business models work on selling service, not the software. Which is fine, but not everyone wants that business model.
- intelVISA 3y agoWhy would a client pay for a closed source wrapper over battle-tested open source libs? Excl. the rare case where the problem space requires a novel solution.
- bigstrat2003 3y ago1. That's not what most closed source software is. It's kind of weird that you're equating closed source software to glorified open source wrappers, because most software (closed or open source) has a significant amount of work besides just "include some libs". 2. Even if it is a glorified wrapper, someone might want to pay so they don't have to do it themselves. Not everyone is a programmer, not every business wants to hire programmers (or their programmers are better used elsewhere).