Building a commercial product on top of a free open source software is pretty awful practice
But as @Deleted said, a lot of stuff you use daily is based in some form on FOSS. Linux was just one big example.
I agree that building a commercial product on top of FOSS without giving back in some form is pretty awful practice. But the bold part is important. Simply taking something that’s free and open source and using it for your commercial product is not bad, it’s more common than you might think. But if you do that, you should give something in return.
every website is built on layers and layers of FOSS libraries. The really stupid move is building a commercial product on top of free proprietary software or APIs, as all the 3rd party app developers for reddit learned recently.
Usually companies that use open source software in their products contribute actively to the projects.
And with “actively” I mean sponsoring the project and/or contributing to the development with PRs.
Considering the “rude” reply, it seems that there were already other arguments between the dev and the one that reported the bug.
Everything is built on top of free open source software.
Oh boy the face once he realizes that Linux is foss and who uses it.
But TBF, many of the big players also contribute to Linux
That took time though.
Ssh only started getting major industry support after heart bleed and it’s been the go to secure shell for at least over a decade before that.
Well most big distros offer tech support for companies, if they pay for their time, right?
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But as @Deleted said, a lot of stuff you use daily is based in some form on FOSS. Linux was just one big example.
I agree that building a commercial product on top of FOSS without giving back in some form is pretty awful practice. But the bold part is important. Simply taking something that’s free and open source and using it for your commercial product is not bad, it’s more common than you might think. But if you do that, you should give something in return.
every website is built on layers and layers of FOSS libraries. The really stupid move is building a commercial product on top of free proprietary software or APIs, as all the 3rd party app developers for reddit learned recently.
Most distros, even German ones, don’t flame companies who post bug reports either. (My bad they’re in Austria)
Usually companies that use open source software in their products contribute actively to the projects. And with “actively” I mean sponsoring the project and/or contributing to the development with PRs. Considering the “rude” reply, it seems that there were already other arguments between the dev and the one that reported the bug.
You live in a fantasy realm. I’d bet less than 5% of companies are actively contributing to OSS.