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> To reply in the same style: who pays for proprietary software, often can demand changes. Not if it's incompatible with available alternatives (such as Window
by crazypython 6y ago
> To reply in the same style: who pays for proprietary software, often can demand changes.
Not if it's incompatible with available alternatives (such as Windows), and you're paying for the privilege of merely having security updates.
Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it? Whereas, people fork and make distros of free software all of the time.
- ldarby 6y ago> Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it? This happens constantly, but in private. Usually the conversation goes like this: customer: opens support ticket, asking how to do some task X vendor: sorry, that needs a feature added to the product customer: fine, we'll switch to $other_vendor vendor: oh look at that, our engineering department scheduled the feature for next release. Granted though that when dealing with vendors as large as Microsoft that's not going to happen.
- shadowgovt 6y agoAt least in the cloud space, the conversation is often more like "We would use you, but X and Y features are business-critical and you do not support them." They're called "table-stakes features."