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by ensignavenger 808 days ago
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!
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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...

Umm, Microsft software uses a lot of open source dependancies.
Not Microsoft themselves, but organizations which use Microsoft.