Yeah, I honestly expected open-source to win out by now.
My guess would be:
a) Programmers are more enthusiastic about hacking for free than designers are about designing for free b) There’s no-one to do the boring tasks that need to be done
I think the more basic question is: why has open source software even gotten to the point that it has? Actually running a startup or a software company is really tough. To do it competently requires (as a starting point) constantly swallowing lots of bitter lessons about what your customers actually care about vs. what is technically interesting. Why expect open source software developers to do all of that hard work for free?
This reminds me of stories (maybe exaggerated) about how Microsoft became internally terrified of GPLv3 and Linux in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Yeah, I honestly expected open-source to win out by now.
My guess would be:
a) Programmers are more enthusiastic about hacking for free than designers are about designing for free
b) There’s no-one to do the boring tasks that need to be done
I think the more basic question is: why has open source software even gotten to the point that it has? Actually running a startup or a software company is really tough. To do it competently requires (as a starting point) constantly swallowing lots of bitter lessons about what your customers actually care about vs. what is technically interesting. Why expect open source software developers to do all of that hard work for free?