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    As a programmer, and an open source one paid handsomely, fuck subscriptions and asshole software companies.

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        The customers (multinational and middle size companies, ranging from telecoms, banks, governments, goods and services) pay for support and features of the software. Software has always bugs and CVEs that need fixing, or new features, or needs for securing its supply chain (with SLSA, SBOMs, etc).

        There’s a handful multibillionarie companies that follow this approach with open source: Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, VMware, etc. Particularly in cloud-native tech like Kubernetes and all that gets deployed on top of it.

        If a technology is not open source it really doesn’t exist anymore. Customers have learned from the last 30 years and run away from vendor lock-in (AWS, AKS, Google cloud services…).

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          Oh, I program with open source stacks too. I thought you were referring to a specific FOSS app or SaaS.

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        According to Wikipedia, he’s actually a criminal defense attorney in California, and also “The Fish”, original lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish.

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          Mmh, and if I go by your nickname, you are Jason Kaye, influential hardcore DJ and dead since a year.

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            I also appear on any graph that shows the months between July and January abbreviated by the first letter of the month.