What your boss doesn't realize is your business already depends on FOSS. Here are a few examples:
- Do you use any cloud provider? Those platforms are built on top of open source software: Linux, nginx (e.g Cloudflare's edge servers before the rust rewrite), ha-proxy (AWS ELB), etc
- Either the software your business builds or depends on probably uses open source libraries (e.g: libc, etc)
- The programming languages your business uses directly or indirectly are probably open source
My point is that folks that make these kinds of statements have no clue how their software is built or what kind software their business actually depends on.
- Do you use any cloud provider? Those platforms are built on top of open source software: Linux, nginx (e.g Cloudflare's edge servers before the rust rewrite), ha-proxy (AWS ELB), etc - Either the software your business builds or depends on probably uses open source libraries (e.g: libc, etc) - The programming languages your business uses directly or indirectly are probably open source
My point is that folks that make these kinds of statements have no clue how their software is built or what kind software their business actually depends on.