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>I wonder if passion projects are of higher quality Based on my personal experience, any software that requires a large team to build and maintain seems to be

>I wonder if passion projects are of higher quality Based on my personal experience, any software that requires a large team to build and maintain seems to be better when it's commercial (and usually proprietary). This is not the case for one-man software projects.

josephg 5y ago
SQLite, NodeJS, the linux kernel, the rust compiler, postgres and others would like a word. NodeJS tried to move to an industry governance board model around the release of 0.12, where commercial interests took part in running the project. It nearly killed nodejs entirely.
- eptcyka 5y ago
  People definitely get paid for work on more than half of those projects.
  - josephg 5y ago
    So? None of them are commercial or proprietary projects - which was the contention. There’s nothing inherent about opensource that precludes having people paid to work on it. It’s just harder.