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> On the other hand, who will work on polished software for end users for free? Man we're so over that... do you know what FLOSS means? Most FLOSS used today (

> On the other hand, who will work on polished software for end users for free? Man we're so over that... do you know what FLOSS means? Most FLOSS used today (and it is used in or to develop mostly everything you use) is developed by paid developers. You sound like bill gates in his open letter to hobbyists: "What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

scarface74 5y ago
And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider? But, where is the open source popular equivalent to Office365 and Adobe’s software suite - the user facing software? And companies that were trying to create a business around open source software are rapidly retreating to close source licenses like ElasticCo and MongoDB.
- marcodiego 5y ago
  > And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider? FLOSS is an enabler of almost all SaaS there is today. With regards to support or consultancy, that's is how Canonical, SuSE and (for the most of its existence) RedHat survived. There also minor examples, like Collabora maintaining LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. These are just from the top of my head. > But, where is the open source popular equivalent to Office365 and Adobe’s software suite - the user facing software? Equivalent to these... I really fail to provide, but consider many user-facing polished FLOSS like Blender, Krita, Inkscape, Firefox, Chromium, Audacity... Some of them have sustainable market segments, some of them are not as advanced as proprietary options; but most important: some of them are more popular/used them proprietary alternatives and a good enough for most people.

scarface74 5y ago

And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider? But, where is the open source popular equivalent to Office365 and Adobe’s software suite - the user facing software? And companies that were trying to create a business around open source software are rapidly retreating to close source licenses like ElasticCo and MongoDB.

marcodiego 5y ago
> And how many companies are still paying “subscriptions” for open source software either for support and/or hosting on a cloud provider? FLOSS is an enabler of almost all SaaS there is today. With regards to support or consultancy, that's is how Canonical, SuSE and (for the most of its existence) RedHat survived. There also minor examples, like Collabora maintaining LibreOffice or OnlyOffice. These are just from the top of my head. > But, where is the open source popular equivalent to Office365 and Adobe’s software suite - the user facing software? Equivalent to these... I really fail to provide, but consider many user-facing polished FLOSS like Blender, Krita, Inkscape, Firefox, Chromium, Audacity... Some of them have sustainable market segments, some of them are not as advanced as proprietary options; but most important: some of them are more popular/used them proprietary alternatives and a good enough for most people.