Open Source Arms Race

Some companies massively invest in open source software projects, while others still remain skeptical and stay away from this trend. What���s in it for those philanthropists, like Google, IBM or Microsoft? Why spend money on something that doesn���t belong to them and is shared among all of us developers? Don���t they understand that the code they write may be used by their competitors? It seems they do understand, but can���t do anything about it.

[image error]Filth (2013) by Jon S. Baird

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