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This is how it works - open source quality created by enthusiastic community wins proprietary crap produced by wage coders counting hours and lines of code. Th
by dschiptsov 14y ago
This is how it works - open source quality created by enthusiastic community wins proprietary crap produced by wage coders counting hours and lines of code.
This is how the end of the era of proprietary software (NOK, MSFT, ORCL, SAP, even AAPL) will look like.
- josephagoss 14y agoExcept that Apple and Google are some of the main open source developers behind WebKit. Of course Opera has been outgunned.
- dschiptsov 14y agoThis is complicated. Google tries to create (or emulate) something like community of individual engineers which rests on principles like "do no evil" or whatever. An order of some kind. It works. So, we could say that contributions are of individuals, not of Google. Even if contributors get paid for full-time, it is their own intention in the first place. At least it is what they want things to look like. As for Apple, there are probably just programmers on a payroll. Apple has a different culture. It is a Steve's workshop, where they "invent" things, or whatever they think these days.