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At what point do software companies just collapse and everything ends up reimplemented in open source?

• anthonyskipper 2y ago
  Not soon enough, and it will never happen for tier-1 cloud providers, and Microsoft is one of those.
• JonChesterfield 2y ago
  Open source needs to drastically up it's dependency management game to get to the point where it works reliably over time before it can displace organisations whose value add is broadly "it somewhat works out of the box and you sue us when it falls over too badly". It also needs to work out an answer to browsers which isn't repackaging chrome, and possibly to the organisations buying GPU supercomputers
  • michaelt 2y ago
    If organisations really wanted "you can sue us when it falls over too badly" then the FOSS-but-with-paid-support-contracts business model would work much better than it actually does. The companies who've aimed for that business model seem to do pretty poorly - judging by the number that end up pivoting to paid premium features, source-available licenses, or just getting acquired.
• pjmlp 2y ago
  Never, because in live in a capitalist society and developers have bills to pay.