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by craigyk 3549 days ago
Pick two:

1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time

Yes, I know there are exceptions.
1 comments
EugeneOZ 3549 days ago
Huh. Apache, nginx, php, js, python, Linux, chromium, asterisk, openvpn... list is very very long. Actually I doubt there is more proprietary software that is widely accepted and reliable, than open-source (or even free) software with same achievements.
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regularfry 3549 days ago
"Valuable product maintained by professionals" doesn't equal "proprietary". All those products you list have people paid to work on them.

Open Source doesn't work in the long term without sponsorship of some sort.

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EugeneOZ 3549 days ago
You want to say these products are not valuable or not maintaned by professionals? They are making money around their projects same as RethinkDB did, so I don't understand what difference you want to underline.
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disordinary 3548 days ago
Plenty of software companies build their businesses around opensource software and pay their employees well. The list is endless
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