Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'...
by linuxftw on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:23AM
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No. My point was, companies should make money from services, not software. I believe all software should have a FOSS license.
Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'...
by foepys on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:34PM
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I get your point but wouldn't that encourage businesses to make their software to be as badly designed as possible to sell as much service/support as possible on e they get ahold of the market?
Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'...
by yellowapple on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:51PM
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> Alphabet doesn't generate revenue from Go.
Hashicorp doesn't generate revenue from Terraform.
(They do generate revenue from Terraform Cloud, but that's a backend for Terraform, not Terraform itself)
Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'...
by systemBuilder on Monday August 14, 2023 @02:01PM
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True, just like Qualcomm bought Eudora (mac) email for fame, Google started the Go project to keep Rob Pike (of UNIX fame) happy and to help their own internal SRE teams. The public "good will" and benefits to Google SRE have more than paid for their efforts to create the Go language, plus also there is some publicity and fame for Google having most of the remaining early UNIX guys on staff ...
Following your example, Alphabet should open source all the weights they use in their current search algorithm as well as the algorithm itself.
And extending that principle, they should also open source the machine translation model and weights Robert DeNero made for them when at Google Translate.
Both of these are dumb hypotheticals but serve to point out the fact that there are loss leaders and revenue generators at each company.