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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by czx4f4bd on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:11PM (#34429522)
How do you accomplish that for a programming language? Make the language open source but sell a proprietary debugger? And how does that solve the problem corporations controlling languages, given that you would presumably have a corporation controlling at least the proprietary components?
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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by unity1001 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:56PM (#34430266)
> How do you accomplish that for a programming language?

That's a more difficult case of course. But I believe enterprise support and custom enterprise features/addons could help in the case of languages.

> corporation controlling at least the proprietary components?

WP plugins are still GPL. But the users can buy, download them from the original source, install them on their site, and update them from their site with one click. Coupled with premium support, this works well. Its a bigger risk and hassle to 'pirate' the plugins from 3rd parties rather than just getting everything directly from the source. (though such 'piracy' does have impact).

In any case, one organization controlling at least the proprietary, custom enterprise components is much better than the alternative.

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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by thanatropism on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:00PM (#34430338)
Think Pycharm.
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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages by ipaddr on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:16PM (#34430566)
Look at Laravel. Open source framework creates saas opportunities, conference opportunities, sponsorship opportunities.

Look at tailwinds, open source lib with saas opportunities that netted the creator millions of dollars

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