The Rise Of Open-Source Software

Open-source software powers nearly all the world’s major companies. This software is freely available, and is developed collaboratively, maintained by a broad network that includes everyone from unpaid volunteers to employees at competing tech companies. Here’s how giving away software for free has proven to be a viable business model.

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The Rise Of Open-Source Software

[Lifeissorich.]

Open-source helps move tech forward quicker.

[taylorreess]

3DsMax: 3000$/year
Maya : 2145$ /year
Blender:Free.

[vaibhavgupta]

Open source is the reason why we have so many startups spawning and releasing their products so quickly. and one of the main reason an undergraduate fresher nowadays start contributing within few days with minimal training.

[RaystyleIII]

It's quite inaccurate to suggest that github standardized the way people collaborate on code projects. This credit goes to Linus Torvalds who invented git

[ctothaz]

i'd say 3/4 of the software i use as a data scientist is open source. couldn't imagine why anyone would pay for something like SAS when there's R and Python.

[axlslak]

Sometimes I feel bad. Because I'm aging. Being 43 is not fun. Not as fun as being 22. But, it is a much better world than when I was born. It's so amazing how many things changed in my life time. The internet was created. And opensource, which, in my opinion is one of the greatest thing humanity ever done.

[ericww]

This video feels about 10 years late to the party

[ninjanerdstudent]

Most software I use on my computer is either open source or pirated.

[MarioRafaelM]

I'm so proud of all of us. Open Source became King.

[llamingo]

Corrections: Richard Stallman did not started the Open Source movement, he started the FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT.

[SachaBernasconi]

I started using Linux and open source software 20 years ago, I am really pleased to see how things have evolved!

[mk_annan]

Open-Source software developers and programmers are the backbone of today's humanity and humanitarian technology.

[MiloTheFirst]

Open-Source: exists
Software development company: wait, that's ilegal
Every other company: it's free real state

[andrew]

Finally, Free Open Source Software getting the media recognition it deserves.

It is exciting to see how open collaborative software won. I'm happy to government is open sourcing a lot of code especially that our taxpayer dollars paid for it.

[achong]

The big problem in programming is the learning curve when you are just getting started. Getting a compiler uses to cost like 1599 or some ungodly amount but they would not sell less than 10 license copy to a kid. All I wanted is a single license. The student version was always limited because you don't need all that function. How to access MS Access using C++ at the time. I made the correct line of code and the student compiler said, "Why do you need to connect to a database?" I'm like trying to f-ing learn here and MS stopped my progress. MS owes me my childhood back.

Today, I can get open source, learn, and if I can make a business or get sponsorship, I can do that. I am happy that everything is open-source now. It allows me the freedom to be creative. I only wish is that I can go back to 1990's and be developing at an early age.

[aly]

I liked the video, though I wish Mozilla Firefox was mentioned!

[maximilianovaldes]

My printer has no open source, I'll open my company.

[mandoelpaso]

Never forget Richard Stallman and Linus!

[HeartBrokenBiker]

Video titled "RISE of Open Source Software" in 2019? It's like you're 15 years behind on this news. 15 YEARS.
I was in college when the RISE was happening... was part of few projects & ran FOSS activities in parts of my country.
You missed a whole decade where the biggest proprietary software house Microsoft - fought, ridiculed, tried to shut down the whole Open Source movement,
and finally now accepts & SELLS open source software as service on their cloud. A whole decade where Chrome browser & Android started from 0 and took over the market.
And today, in your video you say "companies like Microsoft contribute heavily to open source" ... What LOL.
Please tell me there are more people who've seen foss expand are watching this video and laughing!

[numanqadri]

GNU is the real reason for the rise of opensource software. RMS deserves recognition.