Why open source has reach, but no influence

Posted by gmays on Sunday September 20, 2015 @06:39PM
from the steveburge.com dept.

http://steveburge.com/blog/open-source-communities-are-asking-the-wrong-questions/

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Re:Why open source has reach, but no influence by payne92 on Sunday September 20, 2015 @07:53PM (#10249681)

I have a hard time with the implication, "no influence".

20 years ago you had to buy nearly every component of your deployment stack, including your development tools. A SQL database license could easily run you six or seven figures.

Open source has wrecked all of that.

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Re:Why open source has reach, but no influence by hawsome on Monday September 21, 2015 @01:30AM (#10250528)

Does this apply to stuff like React? I'm not quite sure where I'd be losing if I use React in my apps.

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