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But the trade-off comes with an influx of developers and developers love to open source as much as they can (Microsoft and CodePlex being a decent example of a
by Quarrelsome 14y ago
But the trade-off comes with an influx of developers and developers love to open source as much as they can (Microsoft and CodePlex being a decent example of a monolithic propriety beast being led toward open source by its developers).
For a lot of developers in commercial positions it can be politically difficult to use GPL code but LGPL is much more politically expedient. These devs may well then contribute themselves either via the form of bug fixes or future work on more open projects once they leave their original employer.