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Open source alternatives do really well when a lot of people are complaining about the pricing of the closed source leaders (e.g. Snowflake). I don't hear many
by mritchie712 4y ago
Open source alternatives do really well when a lot of people are complaining about the pricing of the closed source leaders (e.g. Snowflake). I don't hear many people complaining about Figma's pricing, but maybe that will start once Adobe starts meddling.
- Zealotux 4y agoI care much more about Adobe's ability to destroy products' quality than prices really.
- mritchie712 4y agoyep, that's coming too!
- caloique 4y agoPricing is one aspect, but OSS solutions bring community and a level of transparency that most closed source companies don't.
- nerdponx 4y agoUntil the VCs turn the screws and they don't anymore.
- arvonle 4y agoIf that happens, fork. It's (literally) free.
- hbn 4y agoDoes that ever work in practice? Has there been a standard fork of Audacity that everyone flocked to since they got purchased by Muse?
- capableweb 4y agoTons of example. Most wildly used forks out there are probably WebKit and Blink, the engines of two popular browsers. Some other notable projects that started as forks: postgres, Wordpress, Apache Server, OpenSSH. I'm sure there are others I forgot.