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If Open Source is so great... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

That seems like the system working as intended. Once enough work has gone into open source projects, even the profit-driven entities see they will make more money by improving those open source projects instead of following their default plan of reinventing the wheel and keeping it proprietary and locked down.