We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.
Using a proprietary solution that has FOSS components isn’t the same as a FOSS solution. Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract (or a proprietary solution that uses FOSS components), which gives the corpo someone to blame.
Also, wasn’t the abacus, technically, open source? So, they couldn’t use that, either.
Remove open source from any company stack and they’ll go back to using abacus.
Using a proprietary solution that has FOSS components isn’t the same as a FOSS solution. Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract (or a proprietary solution that uses FOSS components), which gives the corpo someone to blame.
Also, wasn’t the abacus, technically, open source? So, they couldn’t use that, either.