• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really want to be that guy, but at least in the case of React and NextJS, the companies have a business reason for them being open source.

    Meta uses React internally in a lot of projects. Every other company or developer making contributions in their spare time is free labor, and it directly improves Meta’s own products.

    Vercel has a vested interest in having developers adopt NextJS, as they sell web hosting. It’s easier to build a community of developers around an open-source product, and they even help out with contributions, documentation writing, and QA.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Tbh I’m not exactly sure how is that relevant? Be it Jesus guiding me to make TempleOS or incentive to sell some service the outcome is the same foss