> And that is exactly the point that led into this thread. You choose your tool. Some choose Photoshop. Some choose SolidWorks. Open source is rarely the best c

> And that is exactly the point that led into this thread. You choose your tool. Some choose Photoshop. Some choose SolidWorks. Open source is rarely the best choice for most professionals using software to do their work. It's ok for certain software developers, which is a tiny part of all professional workers using software. No, open-source is often the best choice for professional workers using software. Open source has several advantages: 1) My experience is that open-source is as often better as worse than proprietary. It's random. SolidWorks is a fine example where proprietary is ahead. On the other hand, e.g. my astronomer friends use open-source tools because they're better. 2) It's eternal and archival. Things I worked on 15 years ago still work. My proprietary cloud-based project management stuff went poof as soon as the company went out-of-business. Businesses can accumulate value much more easily. 3) I work in a regulated industry. Open-source doesn't contain hostile code which calls home with telemetry, activation, etc. and might leak whatever information to some random vendor. It's automatically auditable. It doesn't require contract negotiations. Etc. 4) I have access to all of it. There are professionals who spend 40 hours per week doing the same thing, where an investment in Photoshop pays off. There are professionals who spend 40 hours per week doing a variety of things. I've always been in jobs which were more like the latter. A while ago, I was in a business which designed a piece of electronics hardware. They needed to use a tool to 3d print something (a front panel) exactly once in the lifetime of the business. One downside is lack of marketing dollars. My experience is that open source is underutilized outside of software engineering, mostly due to ignorance.