Comment on Abandoned FOSS projects
early_riser@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m not saying proprietary software doesn’t also have problems, just that FOSS has problems unique to it that are rarely acknowledged.
Everything I implement at work is open source because I don’t want to wait for a purchase approval. But I’m also practically the only one interacting with those systems, so I’m the only one who’s affected if something breaks.
Everything I implement at work is open source because I don’t want to wait for a purchase approval.
Just to say, though, I feel like 99% of the software we deploy is open-source for that exact reason. Projects generally start out small, where you try to evaluate some concept. You’re not gonna spend months to go through the purchase process of some proprietary tool, if you can help it…
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
None of the issues you’ve noted are unique to open source though.