no, devs aren't hard to sell to. It's business owners that are hard to sell to.
If you are running a business, every cost needs to be controlled for you to be profitable. Adopting open source is a form of cost control.
The problem of OSS is that the value proposition is that it is free-as-in-beer (as well as all of the benefits of OSS). So if/when the software becomes not free-as-in-beer, the company will have to reconsider, or change, or eat the cost if the cost is lower than the value generation of the software.
The value of open source is that I don't have to waste my time negotiating contracts to license the software, I can make improvemwnts and customizations to it, I don't have to accept changes from upstream that are detrimental to my business, and no one can take it away from me.
Open Source may also be less expensive, but I am paying with some combination of time and efort and support contracts or other service and sponsorships.
no, devs aren't hard to sell to. It's business owners that are hard to sell to.
If you are running a business, every cost needs to be controlled for you to be profitable. Adopting open source is a form of cost control.
The problem of OSS is that the value proposition is that it is free-as-in-beer (as well as all of the benefits of OSS). So if/when the software becomes not free-as-in-beer, the company will have to reconsider, or change, or eat the cost if the cost is lower than the value generation of the software.