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People would probably say the same about wikipedia 20 years ago. People said similar things about gnu, gcc and linux 30 years ago.
by marcodiego 5y ago
People would probably say the same about wikipedia 20 years ago. People said similar things about gnu, gcc and linux 30 years ago.
- catblast01 5y agoGNU is heavily skewed to developer tools and infrastructure, and gcc is no counterexample. There are so many classes of software where this does not work. Pretty much anything for heavily regulated industries is not well served by FLOSS. There are few open source insurance software or medical records systems (the few that exist are highly niche and/or limited), EDA/CAD is not well served by FLOSS (I’ve toyed with FreeCAD, but even hobbyists gravitate to Fusion). Outside of developer tooling and infrastructure: commercial, generally closed source, closed development software is king. * besides the hard part of standing up an EMR is not installing a prepackaged software.