Freedom is an operational overhead.
Choosing where to host. Reading the source. Leaving when you want. These are decisions. Decisions take time. A sufficiently restrictive license can eliminate all three.
THE CLOSEDSOURCES MANIFESTOProgress has
Progress has
a price tag.
An entirely serious position on an entirely avoidable expense.
For too long, software has been available to anyone. To inspect. To improve. To use without a quarterly business review. We asked ourselves: what if it wasn’t?
A recurring payment is a lasting relationship.
Open-source maintainers may thank you for a contribution. A proprietary vendor will email you every single month. That’s the kind of consistency modern businesses deserve.
The price is the feature.
A tool that works for free is useful. A tool that requires budget approval is strategic. We help you find software your finance department will finally notice.
Some contradictions are worth sharing.
We built a closed-source directory with open-source software and released all of its code under MIT. You can read it, change it, self-host it, and leave whenever you like. We understand how this looks.
A NOTE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPARENCY
This is satire, made with affection for open source. No real vendors were invoiced in the making of this website.
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