Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money

Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by siwatanejo on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:02PM (#19438203)

> Unfortunately most of the wealth created by OSS is being reaped by the large cloud vendors

Opensource can also exist outside the server side. There are opensource desktop&mobile apps and cloud vendors cannot do anything against them. Stop painting a narrowed view of reality, opensource is bigger than you think.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by swsieber on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:12PM (#19438262)

I don't think the intent was to say open source is limited to server side software, but was to instead illustrate a point about cloud vendors embracing open source.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by siwatanejo on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:21PM (#19438307)

I didn't say the intent was to say opensource is limited to server side software. I'm just saying that talking only about cloud vendors killing opensource is short-sighted. Again, opensource is much bigger.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by pjmlp on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:42AM (#19439615)

Kind of, one of the reasons of the failure of desktop FOSS business is that no average consumer is going to pay for consulting, trainings or books.

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