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by jandrewrogers
2618 days ago
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Most companies use open source because the permissiveness gives them optionality that they value highly, and will even invest resources in supporting, but don't expect to exercise in most cases. If you eliminate that optionality (e.g. AGPL) then it erodes the value proposition of open source for companies and thus their interest in supporting it. This is the reason many companies will not touch AGPL, it eliminates most of the value they expected to get from the transaction. And without company support, open source development would languish. This is the challenge, and it doesn't have an easy answer. Without optionality, open source offers little to corporate users. |
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Is this really true or just perceived? How often is that optionality actually exercised? And I don't believe that most of the value is in it. The benefits to using good software that continues to be maintained by those using or supporting it is immediate.