Re:Ask HN: Business Justifications for Open-Source
by ayr-ton on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:05PM
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My points:
- Normally is easier to sell software support than software licensing and for this is good to open your source, as will be possible to gather collaboration of other people;
- Gathering collaboration for other people is easy to recruitment of new talents;
- Larger market players will offer different services if they try to take advantage of open-source, and even if they offer the same service, costumers prefer the core maintainers when making big contracts for support.
- Open your code will help to make a software with better quality, as when you can't get time to fix some bugs some people can do this if it is of big priority for them.
- Normally is easier to sell software support than software licensing and for this is good to open your source, as will be possible to gather collaboration of other people;
- Gathering collaboration for other people is easy to recruitment of new talents;
- Larger market players will offer different services if they try to take advantage of open-source, and even if they offer the same service, costumers prefer the core maintainers when making big contracts for support.
- Open your code will help to make a software with better quality, as when you can't get time to fix some bugs some people can do this if it is of big priority for them.