There are no more valid reasons not to make your code free. Security? If that was your safeguard, you are already dead. Afraid to show pajeet.java publicly? Nobody gives a shit about bad code. Competitiveness? Code is just a tool, you still have your more valuable infra.
it's just because old-school developers and high-level executives who think bullshit like "if it's foss, people will steal our shitty software and we won't look professional!"
The world's a mean place. The hiding between lawyers and asshole licenses common in finance didn't come out of nowhere. Patent trolls and thiefes are everywhere.
You probably never worked on a very valuable project. People and institutions will absolutely try to fuck you.
>>3 Google doens't open sores their core business.
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Anonymous2020-02-03 13:41
Consider this: a pack of wild libre software developers.
You have bought the Facebook/Google/Amazon/nu-Microsoft propaganda hook line and sinker.
They open source shit that has no business value.
No one is going to get rich from selling Chromium as pure software. If they could, they would have done it already. The software licensing business model died in 2005. So why not make it open sores and crowdsource human fuzzing from freetards?
None of this open bullshit philosophy applies to the stuff that matters. At the average big tech corporation, you try to so much as copy a directory to your local filesystem for editing, you will get instantly shit canned. Why? Because that's actually useful shit that they spent countless man-decades on.
The primary purpose of the open source by companies thing is to convince startups to also open source, thereby making sure no one else ever attains competitiveness in a niche like they do.
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Anonymous2020-02-04 3:02
>>8 Support contracts are still a big enterprise money maker.
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Anonymous2020-02-04 9:21
>>9 not just enterprise. I know of at least one company (which consists of like two or three anuses) which is releasing open-source software for industrial stuff. they put everything for free on their're are website, but they make enough support money to be in business for 30 years