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FOSS will always have a total system optimization benefit. It's totally idiotic to rewrite over and over again 90% of the code in the world just because somebod
by darthrupert 6y ago
FOSS will always have a total system optimization benefit. It's totally idiotic to rewrite over and over again 90% of the code in the world just because somebody else owns the code. FOSS fixes that, and by doing so increases global wealth more than anything else in the software sector.
A world without FOSS would be like if everyone who needed a bridge had to invent one from scratch every time.
- Tabular-Iceberg 6y agoWell, they would have to use proprietary libraries. Which isn't all that uncommon now either. As a programmer I'm immensely thankful that most problems can be solved with some MIT licensed thing that gets rubber stamped by legal so I can bypass all the corporate bureaucracy involved in buying proprietary licenses. I also suspect proprietary enterprise libraries would share a lot of the bloat and confusing interfaces that enterprise application software gets, since us the users get cut out of the feedback gathering process.