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... Or also never fix anything that we won't be able to sell and make money from (this is, the next shiny thing, whatever it happens to be at the time). The co
by hyperliner 12y ago
... Or also never fix anything that we won't be able to sell and make money from (this is, the next shiny thing, whatever it happens to be at the time).
The cognitive hazard is a good observation.
But I think the most important one is the imbalance of interest, which is where open source shines: MS gets zero value from fixing this bug and a lot of value from adding new features, but for this one developer this bug could have been the most important issue on the road to his company's "value" (their own product's ship date).
- acdha 12y agoI wonder whether we'll see more of a hybrid model where companies either use something like Red Hat's RHEL / Fedora level of support split or a time-delayed OSS release so they can have some period of proprietary advantage while allowing customers access and allowing some chance for major outside contributions or tangents. Arguably Apple is doing something not entirely unlike that but they haven't hit the right balance yet.