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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by throwaway49872 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:54PM (#21874471)
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Proprietary software reinvents itself as corporate-driven Open Source with SaaS Lock-In

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by pyuser583 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:32PM (#21874710)
Bingo.

Look at Microsoft. Used to charge an arm and leg for software. Then ran up against competition from Apple and Google.

2000s were not good for Microsoft.

They’re getting their act together now. But for a while they were very much old tech.

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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by ken on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:14PM (#21879718)
They realized there's a lot of technical people who like open-source software, so they found a way to insert themselves into the middle of that.
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Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by throwaway49872 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @04:07PM (#21880469)
The whole SaaS industry and most of "tech" companies are little more than middleman between open source software and end users.
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