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I disagree. OSS is only ahead if there is no money in it, like new programming languages. Whenever it is profitable, OSS projects just cannot compete with profe
by qznc 2y ago
I disagree. OSS is only ahead if there is no money in it, like new programming languages. Whenever it is profitable, OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time.
OSS is usually reinventing the wheel free from commercial pressures (Linux, GNU, Apache). Or they are previous commercial products (Firefox, LibreOffice, Kubernetes, Bazel).
- Thorrez 2y ago>Whenever it is profitable, OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time. Windows is profitable, but Linux is competing well on servers.
- sillywalk 2y ago> OSS projects just cannot compete with professionals working full time. Many OSS projects have professionals working full time on them.
- LtWorf 2y agoCan you explain why apple, google and microsoft all use a fork of a browser made by KDE?
- qznc 2y agoThey use a fork of a browser engine and there is no money in building a browser engine. The money is in building a browser around the engine because there you can inject tracking and try to make your product unique.