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I wouldn't go as far as religion. It is not blind. Some in the FOSS community are ensuring what they see as a UN charter of inalienable human rights for what pe
by emptysongglass 5y ago
I wouldn't go as far as religion. It is not blind. Some in the FOSS community are ensuring what they see as a UN charter of inalienable human rights for what people can do with code that has a presence in nearly every arena of human life. That presence will grow not diminish.
Diminution of quality and constant churn isn't a very good reason to stop allowing people to look at code and fork it. And you see these terrible qualities magnified in monolithic programs like JIRA or EPIC, which is fully closed and runs the entire healthcare backend for the US and some nations abroad. EPIC and other programs like it are a rentseeking disaster. Replacing it with an open source equivalent would be a huge win for downstream costs and extensible interoperability.
- BirAdam 5y agoI see your point, and don’t entirely disagree, but I am skeptical. If EPIC became open source you’d now need more tech staff to maintain your installations too, as the maintenance burden would creep ever larger, and at some point a business decision would be made to use closed source SAAS again anyway.
- arjvik 5y agoPlease explain how open sourcing code causes increased maintenance burden?
- BirAdam 5y agoThis is observed behavior. The churn in the rest of the ecosystem forces everything to be in a state of constant releases, patches, and upgrades. The alternative is that you depend on outdated code and then must maintain it yourself or just freeze your system forever… which is very much worse unless you’re talking about something non-networked.