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Re:Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare by threeseed on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:49AM (#19747060)
Open source is used in every enterprise e.g.

Datastax (Cassandra), Confluent (Kafka), Oracle (MySQL), Hortonworks (Hadoop), Databricks (Spark), Everyone (Kubernetes).

Vendors support the products but people know it's open source and potentially liable to fail.

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Re:Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare by ncmncm on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:12AM (#19747679)
Proprietary software companies are equally likely to fail, and take the source code down with them. Free Software (and, to a lesser extent, Open Source) are less risky than proprietary software.
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