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> non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't move as quickly, o
by seneca 6y ago
> non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't move as quickly, or deliver good enough products.
How do you reconcile that statement with the absolute dominance of Linux? I don't think they this is universally true. Maybe with the qualification "... for consumer products".
I think the rest of your comment is probably, sadly, accurate.
- geodel 6y agoSeems to me Linux success is largely due to commercial vendors developing many features as aggressively as they would do for closed source products. If it were just engineers working gratis on saturday afternoon Linux wouldn't be where it is today.
- dgb23 6y agoIsn't that an argument for it being free and open? Whether contributors get paid is orthogonal to freedom and openness. It's hard to imagine what would have happened if there was no GNU Linux, Apache, SQLite... [insert gigantic list of open source technology that almost everyone in our field relies on].