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right, like for example Git. No one has built any commercial ventures around Git that I know of.
by bitdiddle 13y ago
right, like for example Git. No one has built any commercial ventures around Git that I know of.
- skyebook 13y agoI can't tell if my sarcastometer is out of calibration but... GitHub?
- bitdiddle 13y agoyes I was being very sarcastic
- general_failure 13y agoThey don't use git. They have a custom ruby based git implementation.
- cookrn 13y agoAre you referencing Grit? https://github.com/mojombo/grit https://github.com/mojombo/grit
- profquail 13y agoAre those commercial ventures linking their code with the Git binary? Or are they just building tools which wrap the command-line Git tool? I'm inclined to think that most (if not all) commercial offerings are going to use the second option, because there won't be much difference to the end-user and it means the company won't have to open-source their code. If Git was permissively-licensed, perhaps those companies would choose to link with the binary (or incorporate the code directly into their products) and contribute patches and bug-fixes back to the project.
- bitdiddle 13y agoperhaps, I think it's some what of a myth that one can't make money from free software. Sure one can't erect flimsy toll booths and extract rents but as I look around I see lots of companies, .eg. IBM profiting quite nicely from free software.