Commercial support for open source

Posted Jul 9, 2024 12:28 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Commercial support for open source by farnz
Parent article: Rosenthal: X Window System At 40

> Proprietary vendors can enforce sharing improvements by reserving the ability to improve the software at all, and thus being able to say "everyone gets the improvements we make, as long as they pay us".

Or by effectively making every customer independently pay for the same improvements. [1]

[1] Which include "fixing glaring syntax errors that show the software was never even _compile tested_ before shipping it"