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If companies choose to use proprietary software for needs that FOSS can and has served well for years, it would seem that those companies are cutting their own
by batmanturkey 4y ago
If companies choose to use proprietary software for needs that FOSS can and has served well for years, it would seem that those companies are cutting their own legs.
I speak primarily of Slack and Zoom and other “low hanging fruit” of already solved problems that feature VC-funded wheel reinvention made popular by their VC-brethren dogfooding said products, when threaded messaging and webRTC don’t necessitate proprietary solutions.
https://meet.jit.si https://meet.jit.si for example…
I don’t think mindless cargo culture is a trend to follow, nor will tech savvy devs disappear nor will the need to remotely administer servers via command lines tools disappear.
Remote Desktop solutions are not realistic tools for server administration in any sort of serious way, so I’m pretty sure that’s a niche that will always exist…
Seeking to browse the web exclusively through a cli browser, however, is probably not something one can do while working in the field of web development.
The web is primarily graphic lauout based