Entitlement in Open Source
It feels like these blog posts come out at least once a year. To me, the issue comes down to the fact that companies are fundamentally relying on software that comes with no promises of support or a warranty. I honestly can't think of another industry that relies so heavily on things they get for free and come with no warranty.<p>So many people act like Open Source is great. But often the love for open source often only goes as far as to say thanks when they're creating a bug report or when they're getting the software for free. Every company I've worked at has used open source code. Only one of them open sourced their code. Many non-decision makers wanted to do open source code but it was never given any time so it would always come down to "You can do it in your free time and release it under our name". So again the company wants free things that benefit them.<p>Personally, I think the way forward is source available. I have a SaaS boilerplate/product framework thing that I'm releasing under the Business Source License where it's free to use for non production and free for folk generating less than $5,000 a month to use in production[1]. To me this provides the best of both worlds, people who aren't making money can use it for free but those who are using it to generate money need to pay to help fund the development. Free users get best efforts in support and paying customers get priority support. I think if it relies on people paying what they can afford it results in many not paying at all even though they can afford it.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/getparthenon/parthenon#faq" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/getparthenon/parthenon#faq</a>