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by pythonaut_16 3293 days ago
Many more enterprisey, open-source averse companies still seem to have a woeful lack of understanding of what open source actually is.

Just yesterday I heard someone saying a down side of open source is that you're relying on people's (contributor's) free time for any feature to get done. He somehow overlooked the fact that the largest and most popular open source projects tend to have full time paid contributors (often at Microsoft or Google), or in other cases have an active community with a far better delivery record than just about any enterprise software team.