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My impression of FOSS is that it's very heavy on total rewrites, as that is what attracts engineers. So, you end up with a lot of underbaked variants of the sam
by cyberdrunk 6y ago
My impression of FOSS is that it's very heavy on total rewrites, as that is what attracts engineers. So, you end up with a lot of underbaked variants of the same thing.
- smaudet 6y agoHmm, interesting theory...I think its more that forks are a thing - with a traditional product if snr mgmt dictates xyz must happen, rare is it even the consumer gets much say - with FOSS if it doesn't work right or does something dumb you can normally fork and go a completely different direction. So I guess yeah if there are 100 ways to skin a cat you will get 100 different approaches, but then that's where the market comes along and mostly only the best 'rise to the top'. Also, don't pretend complete re-writes with dubious value don't happen in big biz...its more common for something to be pronounced 'unworkable' and a complete rewrite mandate be issued, usually because a product had ossified to the point nobody knows what it actually does anymore, normally because companies are bad about investing maintenance time into code.