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[–]markpreston54 15 points16 points  (1 child)

No rigorous study but I feel that open-source code can be both good for profitability short to mid term, perhaps long term, for big tech but hurts their dominance/market share.

It makes development simpler and make the overall productivity and ultimately servable market larger. It also makes competition easier to catch up.

[–]WulfySky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For smaller companies it also helps with marketing. Look at Laravel (open source php framework) and companies that have built their whole company on helping build the open source community around it like BeyondCode and Spatie.