Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)

Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by fierarul on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:29PM (#21874321)

> Of course, if your business is selling operating systems, development tools, databases and other infrastructure stuff, then, yup, open source has eaten your business.

I agree with what you said. With the caveat that some lucky few companies do seem to do well in this space too. Recently learned JetBrains (makers of IntelliJ) had $270M revenue/year and $100M net income in 2018.

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by nine_k on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:24PM (#21874651)

Even they produce community editions of their software to drive up engagement.

In 1990s, you turned a blind eye to small-time piracy to get engagement. Now you can offer a much better deal.

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by Edmond on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:53PM (#21874462)

It shouldn't be surprising that JetBrains is doing well.

Even with sectors like developer tools, there is a lot of room for creating value-added solutions that are proprietary, and that customers will happily pay good money for.

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by jjeaff on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:00PM (#21881955)

I think it is surprising, especially considering the free open source options available that are not far behind intellij offerings like VS code.

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by kgwxd on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:10AM (#21883525)

JetBrains is in a unique position, they came from a time when closed IDEs were accepted. I doubt they could enter the market with the same business model today.

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