[j45]

There are organizations (often not small) that will pay for a hosted and closed source solution if it is available under dual license in case it goes away.

Other organizations still, have open source only policies, or no open source at all.

Many of these applications can be in government.

It can increase the footprint.

[ensignavenger]

What organizations have a no open source policy? They would be hard pressed to find any significant commercial software that doesn't have an open source dependency somewhere it its dependency chain!

[j45]

Oh, they exist. Imagine Microsoft based companies that must have commercial licensing with software that guarantees to work or is secure.

I know of some CMS’ which were dual licensable for this reason.

Other reasons why:

https://www.channelfutures.com/connectivity/reasons-organiza...

[ensignavenger]

Umm, Microsft software uses a lot of open source dependancies.

[j45]

Not Microsoft themselves, but organizations which use Microsoft.