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Polishing is expensive, and while you're doing it you're falling further behind on feature parity. The fact is that OSS simply can not compete with multi-billi
by micromacrofoot 3y ago
Polishing is expensive, and while you're doing it you're falling further behind on feature parity.
The fact is that OSS simply can not compete with multi-billion dollar companies with enormous staffs that give away their server time for $0. There aren't enough human hours to go around.
Figma has ~1000 employees last I checked, and Adobe has nearly 30k. Orders of magnitude larger than most OSS projects.
So a lot of the time in OSS you end up choosing the work that keeps people interested (because often you don't have the money to do so). Developers want to build new features, and designers have next to no interest doing free work for OSS.