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It still amazes me how prevalent closed-source is on Windows. Even hacker-oriented, non-commercial things are closed-source.

• marcodiego 5y ago
  Me too. I think the "windows way" get into the mindset of its users.
• larodi 5y ago
  everything is closed source, apart from the building blocks that comprise it. all clouds are closed source, most of the finance is closed source, MacOS is closed source, iOS - too. games - closed source, critical infrastructure - closed. okay...let's think. lets take for example postgresql. all right is opensource, we all love it. but how some company uses it - well this is not open source. only few businesses dare to be open source and typically open the non-critical parts. why so much pressure on MS? the idea that the world is embracing opensource is absolutely disconnected with the reality ever since the idea of open source came to existence. once again - even when the building are open source, the way they are tied together is usually not. and their usage in business systems - also not open source. period. there is fair chance, that whoever is reading this comment works is paid by a company that is using open source, but is not open sourcing.
  • dmos62 5y ago
    You've said a lot of things there. Could you sum up what you were arguing for?