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Well the ‘pathology’ is clear, isn’t it? They’re not actually smart enough to keep track of what every other team is doing, at any point in time. FOSS works b
by MichaelZuo 2y ago
Well the ‘pathology’ is clear, isn’t it?
They’re not actually smart enough to keep track of what every other team is doing, at any point in time.
FOSS works because there’s usually only at most a few dozen balls in the air simultaneously, so someone who believes they can keep track of balls in the air gets by without looking ridiculous.
But that’s just not viable when there are hundreds or thousands of balls in the air simultaneously… their eye muscles literally couldn’t move and focus fast enough.
- dasil003 2y agoI think FOSS really only works well for infrastructure type of projects, things where the customers are downstream programmers or at the very least very technical sysadmin types and power users who can understand the gory details to some reasonable depth. Those projects work because they are centered around proven abstractions that are broadly applicable, thus allowing for a tight charter and some stability in requirements. End user software by comparison, has not really been successful in the FOSS model. There have been many attempts, but they perenially lag behind commercial offerings, and thus primarily see adoption from the ideologically motivated and/or very cost sensitive users.