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.
Well you could, but then it wouldn’t be open source anymore. You could still call it ‘public source’ though. The threat of competing forks is one important mechanism keeping FOSS projects on the straight and narrow, imo.