I don't get why big companys are afraid of open source software

I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software.

I know that monetizing open source is hard but in exchange they would have 8 billion programmers ready, for free!

Even if they do like redhat , as controversial as it is right now, they would be better off than just closing the source.

I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.

Double_A,
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Because that’s not how professional software development works. You don’t actually get free programmers because most of the time your customers are not techy people.

E.g. if I develop some special software for dentists or whatever, and I open source it, all I get is that someone else builds the code and distributes it for free so I can’t easily sell it anymore.

7heo, (edited )

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knfrmity,

Because they can make more money by walling the garden.

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