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#4) Attention is the new money. For a lot of software, like social networks, getting new users and new downloads is the main goal. When a company is not charg
by goodpoint 5y ago
#4) Attention is the new money.
For a lot of software, like social networks, getting new users and new downloads is the main goal.
When a company is not charging [most] users money, the second best thing is publicity or grabbing and selling user's data. Both options require user churn. Keeping users happy for a long time is not their concern.
Unfortunately this is happening in the FOSS world as well. Constant churn of software products, features and bugfixes to keep users addicted.
- burntoutfire 5y ago> Unfortunately this is happening in the FOSS world as well. Constant churn of software products, features and bugfixes to keep users addicted. I suspect there's so much churn in FOSS, because developers love rewrites and starting from scratch. In the world of commercial software, written by companies, the bosses/owners reign them in. FOSS, on the other hand, does not have bosses or owners...
- goodpoint 5y agoNo, most churn comes from company-driven FOSS, especially around devops stuff. Among other reasons, they use churn as a way to control the userbase and prevent successful fork. > FOSS, on the other hand, does not have bosses or owners... Corporate-driven OSS has plenty.