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by Bombthecat 1255 days ago
Well, it makes sense, you can outsource bug fixing and reporting for free.

You can test and use the software for free

Companies can outsource the responsibility of hosting.

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> Well, it makes sense, you can outsource bug fixing and reporting for free.

In the long term, maybe. In the short to medium term, most of the development ends up being done by the company who created the project.

I guess for simple stuff like typo bugs, people will submit PRs, and maybe organisations with weird use-cases will merge their integrations etc into the project, though.