You use more open source software than you think

Re:You use more open source software than you think by logbiscuitswave on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:04PM (#27453880)

I’ve worked several jobs in the past where using reciprocal OSS (such as GPL) was expressly forbidden. This would leave us in the position of reinventing the wheel, buying something, or using something (possibly inferior) that’s more permissive.

(I guess in many ways this is a data point to support the “OSS work becomes just a source of free labor for large tech companies” thesis up thread.)

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Re:You use more open source software than you think by parafactual on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:48PM (#27456145)

It might be the only pragmatic choice, so I'm not condemning developers or anything, but that would make me a bit uncomfortable with the company itself.

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Re:You use more open source software than you think by sigjuice on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:19PM (#27454659)

So I take it Linux was not used at all in any shape or form?

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Re:You use more open source software than you think by Stratoscope on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:04PM (#27455532)

I suspect that when GP said "using", they meant "incorporating it into your own code".

No one at any company I've heard of or been involved with cares if you simply use, i.e. run, Linux or other GPL software. That doesn't affect the licensing of your own software.

What they do care about is if you take the GPL software and incorporate it into your own product.

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Re:You use more open source software than you think by sigjuice on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:46PM (#27464072)

I guess you are right. The OP said "buying" and I suppose in the trajectory my career has taken me the concept of buying code is foreign to me.

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