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How much do the people working on them get paid to work on them? What many users of open source don't seem to understand is that actually, honest-to-goodness o
by pwang 13y ago
How much do the people working on them get paid to work on them?
What many users of open source don't seem to understand is that actually, honest-to-goodness open source development is a major undertaking and imposition on a person's time. And quality software takes actual teams of actual people with experience and commitment and a basic peace-of-mind about paying their mortgage and putting food on the table.
- tluyben2 13y agoYou are right and I do understand that actually. So instead of whining I'll go help improve it. Not the web version for now though; the everything web thing is not working for me as at least my i7/16gb/ssd system is far too slow for productive work in that kind of context.
- gaius 13y agoNo, it's more subtle than that. If you have paying customers and hence money, you can pay for experts in domain X to sit down with your programmers and finesse the product. If you don't, then what you have is a wishlist of features but no real, deep understanding of what users use them for. That's why the GIMP is the GIMP, every feature under the sun, in a horrible mishmash interface and for more of its life unusable for professional work because the one feature it really needed, 16-bit colour, wasn't prioritized because none of the devs realized they needed to.