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The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it? (www-theregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Lots of companies are using open source software, more of them all the time. Most are hoping to save money. The next stated reasons made us chuckle:

To reduce vendor lock-in

Open standards and interoperability

Stable technology with long-term community support

To reduce development or maintenance costs

Number two sort of makes sense, but as for the rest, yeah, good luck with those.

Why is it risible that using FOSS would reduce vendor lock-in?