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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by chii on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:06PM (#19438549)
> By no means are their OSS investments altruistic

why does anything have to be altruistic? Why can't a company invest in OSS selfishly? The results are the same - more OSS available for anybody else to use.

> OSS developers aren't winning.

what's "winning" here? Is winning gaining financial profit from OSS? Is winning gaining user/market share? Is winning just merely being employed to do what you want to (i.e., employed to contribute to OSS)? And why is any one of those definitions more worthy than any other?

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by mythz on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:03AM (#19438855)
It doesn't, parent is suggesting everyone benefits when cloud providers use their accumulated wealth to hire people to work on their OSS investments as some kind of justification for the consolidation of wealth from OSS happening around cloud monopolies.

It doesn't benefit everyone, it benefits anyone using their proprietary and OSS products and cloud services. It definitely doesn't benefit existing OSS projects who are seeing their innovations replicated by full-time resources or OSS developers working on competing projects.

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