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April 19, 2020 04:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EcGBi_0VvDU/will-companies-cut-open-source-investment-because-of-covid-19
Will Companies Cut Open Source Investment Because of COVID-19?
The editor of TFIR posed an interesting question to Rob Hirschfeld, the Founder/CEO of RackN (which automates and integrates bare-metal infrastructure). Will the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the sustainability of open source software? Hirschfeld responded:"The idea that big companies are maintaining open-source projects for the community good is going to get tested, as companies look for places where they can conserve revenue. I think that's a really critical thing." "The same is going to be true with open-source startups that are hoping to monetize support or consulting but have no real gate across the front of their infrastructure... Companies might decide they can use the open-source project and not pay the sustaining engineers that are working in that project. "These are really serious concerns about the whole open-source model, which relies on goodwill and free money."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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