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> > Nor can most organizations continue to evolve open source project X. > Can you name any project X you feel fits your hypothesis? That seems an odd questio
by CWuestefeld 15y ago
> > Nor can most organizations continue to evolve open source project X.
> Can you name any project X you feel fits your hypothesis?
That seems an odd question to me. Pick a random organization that is using some FOSS package. I bet you that this organization is not going to be prepared to evolve that system, either due to skills or to other resource issues.
How many companies out there are going to be able to port Python or LibreOffice or what-have-you to a new platform? Most don't have the skillset. But even if they did, they won't have the resources to keep the developer working on that rather than the internal projects. Sure, there are exceptions (and I'm glad there are), but those are just that: exceptions.
Even if the theoretical possibility is there, practical considerations don't allow it.
Most companies do not have the resources to contribute to FOSS, and even fewer companies actually do it.
- rbanffy 15y agoI find it extremely unlikely we would have to port something the size of LibreOffice or Python to a completely different platform. What we would probably be able to do would be to fix bugs that affect us, port it to newer releases of the dependencies it was originally designed for (or, if not possible, adopt the dependencies) and make small improvements if the need arises. What we could also do is to find other groups with similar needs and pool our resources. No closed-source system allows that.