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Corporate Open Source is Dead (m.youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies.

You see the contradiction here right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't. Could you elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Open source projects have no potential for long term profitability unless those projects get support from for profit companies, thus compromising the nature of open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Not all FOSS projects need to be profitable to survive. IOW if a project cannot survive without being profitable and it cannot be profitable long-term, then it cannot survive long-term.