It’s widely believed that Open Source will die if it doesn’t get enough financial support. Developers building Open Source products could face limitations and might move to some other platform if they do not get proper financial backing. Some of the big-time investors in Linux are IBM, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Intel. But some of the open source databases like mySQL and Ingres do not get enough commercial backing.
Many of the developers who develop open source products are small time developers with no standard pay, unlike their counterparts who develop non open source products. It will be interesting to see what the future has in store for Open Source. As long as companies like IBM support it, there shouldn’t be much problem.
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