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Discussion on: Automatic Termination of Closed Source Licenses

 
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Thorsten Hirsch

True, the popularity of closed source might indeed correlate with the size of the company. But the bigger the company, the less likely is that a project gets abandoned - at least without a migration path to another product.

The projects I see the most critical are tiny, e.g. a specialized app for few customers. Big software companies see no profitable case here, so single developers step in and build a product, maybe as a side project. These are the projects that get abandoned.