Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
qqq@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSounds like you’re cherry picking both; I’ve seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.
Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
qqq@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoSounds like you’re cherry picking both; I’ve seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Sure, but if you look at the top quality softwares, the majority of them are paid.
Because money is a big encouragement to make them as flawless as possible. Something FOSS just doesn’t have.
qqq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is also far from my personal experience, you might not even realize what free software you’re depending on?
Your browser is most likely the most complex piece of software you interact with daily and it is most likely FOSS. The Linux kernel is FOSS and is incredibly robust. Most compiler suites, FOSS. Most programming languages, FOSS. These are all incredibly well written and robust tools. AOSP, kinda FOSS and the forks like Graphene are definitely FOSS. Hell even a lot of macOS programs are actually FOSS.
There is great paid and proprietary software out there, sure, but no it’s not the majority of top quality software in my personal experience and likely a lot of people’s experiences
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They are used due to support not quality. Companies need to be able tp purchase service and support agreements and very often FOSS has none of that.