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Discussion on: Time For Employers To Change Their Perspective On Open Source Contribution

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John Peters

I've been in the industry for a long time. IBM proved that the most money is not in creating software or hardware but in supporting it. The effort in keeping things up and running and adding in new features is at least 80% of the total cost of software.

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Santosh Yadav

They can spend millions supporting their own products, but when working on those products, they end up using lot of open source projects, do they support them financially or by sending PRs?
Take the example of github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse which was open source, and many organizations ended up earning good amount of money, but when he requested them to support the project financially or by sending PRs, they ignored him.
And he ended up making it paid for them.