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by henry2023 66 days ago
Don’t get me wrong but if virtually all modern software infrastructure lives on top of open source and they’re mostly fine then I’d imagine that you can make a scheduling webapp secure independent to if it’s OSS or not.

It’s OK if there’s another reason for this transition, just be transparent about it and don’t treat your users as children.
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righthand 66 days ago
They don’t owe you a complete list of reasons why they’re close sourcing their software. They are not a publicly traded company and no one (customers) actually cares if the product is open source or not.
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rule_of_cool 64 days ago
No-one cares if a product is closed-source, a lot of people do care if a product is open source, and really unless a product is truly unique (almost no product is) that is often the main selling point.
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righthand 64 days ago
Open source software is just a method for corporations to get free evangelization of their product. Companies are now saying “with the assault of AI it is no longer valuable to keep the code open.” They don’t need the handful of Twitter addicted software devs that will evangelize for them anymore because they lose too much by publishing the code. For small companies, the product is most likely the extent of their brand and offerings. Not worth the risk of going out of business, especially when competitors probably aren’t open source.
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