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Corporations should do a better job of adopting open projects (see Google) and Open source projects should do a better job of recruiting corporations to get inv

• bunderbunder 14y ago
  Corporations should do whatever is in their best financial interests. That's not a philosophical assertion, it's a legal mandate. Consequently, open-source projects that are critical to companies' success are already well-supported by those same companies. And most the major open-source projects have plenty of commercial support - in a nutshell, what organizations like the Apache Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation are. The only spot where open source really frays at the edges is consumer software such as Linux desktop environments or office software. That's sort of inevitable - programmers are expensive, and from a company's perspective hiring developers to keep GIMP up to speed is orders of magnitude more expensive than a stack of Photoshop licenses, and won't necessarily deliver the goods until months or years down the line (rather than minutes). So projects like that don't end up being supported as well as we'd like because it's not really in many companies' financial interest to do so.