Re:Making Open Source software safer and more secure
by SkyMarshal on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:17PM
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> most companies would rather have an OSS library from some other corporation than github.com/fortnitedude anyways.
I think any project that's not a hobby project and is responsible for providing a quality, reasonably secure product to paying customers would prefer this. Be it a mega-evil-corp or a scrappy startup or anything in between.
But if you're a founder of such an open-source project that is getting interest from big companies, that sounds like an opportunity to get funding and turn your hobby project into a startup. Pretty sure most of those mega-evil-corps and scrappy startups would rather pay the project founder and originator than some fork.
I think any project that's not a hobby project and is responsible for providing a quality, reasonably secure product to paying customers would prefer this. Be it a mega-evil-corp or a scrappy startup or anything in between.
But if you're a founder of such an open-source project that is getting interest from big companies, that sounds like an opportunity to get funding and turn your hobby project into a startup. Pretty sure most of those mega-evil-corps and scrappy startups would rather pay the project founder and originator than some fork.