We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.
This is an admirable project, and I one I support. However, it’s important to note that ‘’‘the issue with open source in an enterprise environment, is that there is no one to blame when things, inevitably, break or are misconfigured. The blame falls on only you, not a vendor.’‘’
Literally the reason my former VP of IT gave me that the CEO gave him.
Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.
This is an admirable project, and I one I support. However, it’s important to note that ‘’‘the issue with open source in an enterprise environment, is that there is no one to blame when things, inevitably, break or are misconfigured. The blame falls on only you, not a vendor.’‘’
Literally the reason my former VP of IT gave me that the CEO gave him.
Remove open source from any company stack and they’ll go back to using abacus.
You’re CEO and VP of IT are idiots.
Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.
Commercial support exists for opensource too so its just a misunderstanding of it.
Commercial enterprise support is usually in the form of a vendor support contract, which gives the corpo someone to blame.
That is a value as well. But also support from people already actively contributing to the project can be very helpful as well
Very true. And I am not pretending it’s not. I was mostly venting my experience (and frustration) regarding enterprise environments.
Because clearly blaming corporations for the ongoing climate apocalypse is going super well! They really care! And they are super sorry!
I… don’t understand what you’re on about. How does the climate crisis have anything to do with my observation about FOSS enterprise support?
The corpos aren’t looking to be blamed. They’re looking for someone to blame.