I’d rather go back to the 90s! The good old times, when devs can lose all that commercial software source code they are developing when the hard drive crashes! And there were no backups! Sorry people who bought licenses! 😂
No, we prefer the proprietary ones so that a rival can buy out their competition, end their products, and force everyone to migrate to their worse version of the software you were happy with!
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
…is that it can be picked up and continued by anyone rather than lost forever, right?
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d rather go back to the 90s! The good old times, when devs can lose all that commercial software source code they are developing when the hard drive crashes! And there were no backups! Sorry people who bought licenses! 😂
Narrator: this happened more than once.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
No, we prefer the proprietary ones so that a rival can buy out their competition, end their products, and force everyone to migrate to their worse version of the software you were happy with!