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Originally Posted by pawoSD
The issue with making something like windows open source is that it then becomes the product of said developer who makes changes to it. Microsoft could not really then be held responsible to support it, and the burden falls to in-house IT and developers, which can lead to knowledge silo's....and that is never good. Also companies buying a closed-source OS know what they are getting, and the support that comes with it or that is available if needed. If everyone was running different distributions and mods of the same OS, interoperability on a large scale and software support on a large scale would become an intense nightmare. Its bad enough as it is!  |
Support is typically in-house and/or outsourced as it is. Larger companies tend to use a lot of custom or modified software that's supported by in-house staff. Open-source doesn't mean there wouldn't be curated distributions so people obtaining them would know what they're getting.