Personally I believe this is a very poor take

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Uh, you just have to take a look at recent developments with Unity and Adobe to see that closed-source software can be a huge problem?

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneOP
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      4 months ago

      Exactly, what the video fails to mention is the eventuality that the software ceases to be supported, then what? You’ve built your entire business around this piece of software and it would cost more to migrate to something else than having someone who understands the code or perhaps someone doing it for free on the internet. But with server software especially, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of this proprietary stuff ends up going SaaS only ripping off any companies that self host.