Re:Chez Scheme is now free
by brudgers on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:31PM
(#11573871)
Even at its most basic, an arbitrary developer filing a bug report is potentially less costly to handle than a customer experiencing a failure...it can be ignored and maybe the developer submits a patch.
On a longer timeline, hiring developers experienced in the technology from the open source community saves on the cost of training them for a proprietary code base.
Ideally, the open source community develops new features, identifies and patchs bugs, writes tests and libraries, etc. adding value realized by the company's paying customers. In the meantime the company still can devote staff to its business priorities and ignore those of the larger community: e.g. no `map` in go-lang and no `react new myapp` at the CLI for React.
To put it another way, why would a business open source code for anything other than business reasons?
On a longer timeline, hiring developers experienced in the technology from the open source community saves on the cost of training them for a proprietary code base.
Ideally, the open source community develops new features, identifies and patchs bugs, writes tests and libraries, etc. adding value realized by the company's paying customers. In the meantime the company still can devote staff to its business priorities and ignore those of the larger community: e.g. no `map` in go-lang and no `react new myapp` at the CLI for React.
To put it another way, why would a business open source code for anything other than business reasons?