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Then proprietary software must surely be a pianola (a player piano that plays automatically): it plays alone, but it is always the same song and you cannot chan
by enriquto 6y ago
Then proprietary software must surely be a pianola (a player piano that plays automatically): it plays alone, but it is always the same song and you cannot change a note.
- Spivak 6y agoI really don’t get where this idea that proprietary software is inflexible comes from. We can’t simultaneously all be working at feature factories and making inflexible software. Sure, we’ve all had to experience the annoyance of working out the limitations of proprietary software we can’t patch but FAR FAR more common is working around the limitations of FOSS software that is infeasible to patch. You’re probably not going to patch some bug you found in your jdbc driver, tomcat, or nginx because it’s expensive to maintain. I’ve been really really happy with our paid software at & $company because I have a vendor I can pester to fix my bug or implement my feature.
- mindslight 6y ago> We can’t simultaneously all be working at feature factories and making inflexible software Actually, yes we can. The key insight behind liberal economics is that central planners are incapable of understanding the demands at the edges. The same goes for software - the feature factories can only generate features imagined by centralized focus groups (or even worse, the business desires of the company itself), whereas desires of actual users are much more vibrant than that.