I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software.

I know that monetizing open source is hard but in exchange they would have 8 billion programmers ready, for free!

Even if they do like redhat , as controversial as it is right now, they would be better off than just closing the source.

I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.

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I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software

Maybe they think that their business would not be as profitable when using open source business models.

I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.

That’s source-available software. An example license that you would probably like: The GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) license.

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