People want to call their software open source, because it attracts customers. They don’t believe in software freedoms or open source, otherwise they’d never try or want to restrict Freedom 0.

If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part, the software part ain’t gonna make or break you.

> If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part

No the problem is that it cant compete on the hardware part sometimes

Lets face it even if it something is open source, chances are that the most contributions/time are still spent by the person making it or the saas provider in this industry.

Imagine that someone goes ahead and launches a cheaper version of their saas and people go use that, since that person isnt having his time invested in the software as much as the original person and thus is willing to undercut him because his investment/returns expectations are very minimal whereas for the original saas it can be very high (writing good quality software which costs some developers real time and even real money)

> If your SaaS can’t compete on the service part, the software part ain’t gonna make or break you.

Oh, your bootstrapped team can’t simultaneously develop from scratch and support the new open source software project AND outcompete a multi-billion dollar business who decided to offer your service as a below-cost addon to their offering used by millions of people on day one? Tough luck, greedy bastard, you should have stayed in your cubicle.

Why do people feel entitled to profitting off the work of others?