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There are organizations (often not small) that will pay for a hosted and closed source solution if it is available under dual license in case it goes away. Oth
by j45 3y ago
There are organizations (often not small) that will pay for a hosted and closed source solution if it is available under dual license in case it goes away.
Other organizations still, have open source only policies, or no open source at all.
Many of these applications can be in government.
It can increase the footprint.
- ensignavenger 3y agoWhat organizations have a no open source policy? They would be hard pressed to find any significant commercial software that doesn't have an open source dependency somewhere it its dependency chain!
- j45 3y agoOh, they exist. Imagine Microsoft based companies that must have commercial licensing with software that guarantees to work or is secure. I know of some CMS’ which were dual licensable for this reason. Other reasons why: https://www.channelfutures.com/connectivity/reasons-organizations-opt-not-to-use-open-source-software https://www.channelfutures.com/connectivity/reasons-organiza...
- ensignavenger 3y agoUmm, Microsft software uses a lot of open source dependancies.
- j45 3y agoNot Microsoft themselves, but organizations which use Microsoft.