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I think it's easy to get this impression but the reality is that there are many thriving software businesses with mature open source alternatives. I work for A

I think it's easy to get this impression but the reality is that there are many thriving software businesses with mature open source alternatives. I work for Atlassian. Our two biggest products are a wiki and a bug tracker. We have dozens of open source competitors. There is also a long list of commercial competitors. Many of our commercial competitor started up in the last few years and they seem to be growing or at least they haven't gone out of business.

cageface 15y ago
This is a good point. The handful of genuine OSS success stories obscures the fact that most OSS products just aren't very good.
- bryanlarsen 15y ago
  Most proprietary software isn't any good, either. The difference is that bad proprietary software dies. Bad open source software "lives" on in graveyards like Sourceforge.