I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software.
I know that monetizing open source is hard but in exchange they would have 8 billion programmers ready, for free!
Even if they do like redhat , as controversial as it is right now, they would be better off than just closing the source.
I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.
My work for example, is pretty all-in on the MS ecosystem and it’s a little annoying sometimes.
MS’s proprietary alternatives to established FOSS counterparts, while well documented, are needlessly complicated and only really viable in Azure for the most part. They are also very good at not exposing the underlying tech to managers, preferring use of buzzwords.
MS then provides an educational portal to learn about all this stuff, which then creates further managerial lock-in…
Yeah exactly because managers don’t care about tech, its all about hype and buzzwords. Microsoft has other reasons to keep their tech as it is probably something around of way I described in here.
Either way the truth is that the alternatives, less say, LibreOffice/OnlyOffice and NextCloud aren’t really alternatives for most use cases. NextCloud is a shame, they should be ashamed of calling themselves an alternative to Office365 / Teams / OneDrive. They’re pretty much like Tesla, if they didn’t spend most of their time over-promising + under-delivering people would be surprised with the progress they’ve done instead of going for scrutiny.