otoh a lot of the most useful and enduring software ever made has been made by volunteers in their spare time
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoI’m sorry but “your need to use better applications” is very funny to read when most of the time the Linux open source alternative will never be as good as the product made by the company that has hundreds of paid employees working on it.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
parpol@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Except most big open source project are developed by companies, and only the tiny ones aren’t. This applies to all open source projects on all platforms.
Also, most of them already are better. People just don’t want to change their layouts and workflows. And people also don’t value privacy, which if they would, they wouldn’t rate the proprietary software as half as good.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Exactly. For example:
And so on. Most big FOSS projects are backed by one or more companies with full-time developers supporting it. The difference is that the license makes lock-in a lot less likely, since the community (read: non-paid devs) will likely patch in compatibility (i.e. file support, data export, etc).