I did not really understand what they were trying to say, but I think the dynamics for free (especially non-commercial, community-driven projects) vs non-free a

I did not really understand what they were trying to say, but I think the dynamics for free (especially non-commercial, community-driven projects) vs non-free are different The former do not have the same strong need to keep adding stuff beyond what makes sense. I am increasingly happy to see small tools that does what they need to do and can almost immediately move to maintenance-mode forever and just provide important bug-fixes and every now and then add support for new platforms. But what about progress? A fork can do that. Or some competing free tool. Also the link to the article by Wirth at the end of the article, A Plea for Lean Software, was great and I never read that before, so I am happy that The Register linked to it (https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf).