| [Rant] It's all business for them. They don't love Linux anymore than they do FLOSS. Argument would be, "but Microsoft is one of the biggest open source contributors". It's like philanthropy, you give money to those in need, but don't fundamentally address the problem, but make it look like you do. All the corporations that contribute to open source projects in terms of man power & finance, do so because they can create more business opportunities & make them noble in eyes of public. But, what they do is take open source projects that have "permissive license" & are growing in popularity. Then contribute, add in proprietary code, sell them as enterprise solutions. In the end, the user of that program is denied any freedom to study the code & modify for their own needs. A big tech that open sources its internal software can do so for any reasons and let me say one of them. They get a community that basically maintains the software, writes documentation, add features & fix bugs for frere. The tech could then hire people trained with that software which they open sourced, saving them training costs. Licenses from OSI & BSD suffer from their "permissive" nature. They think about freedom, but not for who. They think that the ability for a user to not turn a open source software into a proprietary one, is restricting their freedom. But, Free Software thinks the opposite, and puts people who are denied freedom . Free Software with its Copyleft license, guarantees user the absolute freedom to do anything with the program they got for free/money, provided they give the same freedom to others. Basically make the freedom go viral. |