Why is it so hard for an "international community of hundreds of avid volunteer programmers" to make something as good as the commercial alternative made by a team of 10 people?
1. Large open source projects have too much overhead attached to every single fucking decision. When a project it run commerically there are defined leaders and decision makers.
2. Often a large percentage of "contributors" contribute nothing or even have negative contributions as they break other peoples shit.
3. fuck it,im too lazy to continue
So why is it Linux is dominant in servers, an essential area for businesses and public services?
>>54483088
Because companies pay to have that shit done.
6 P's.
Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Commercial teams have management structures and actually plan out the programs before making them. Data flow diagrams, architecture decisions. A structure is decided upon and stuck to, there are Standard Operating Procedures put in place for creating, designing or using certain things.
Essentially things are done professionally as opposed to people diving head first into writing the program without planning beforehand.
>>54480868
That explains why IE is so great right?
Most projects are garbage whether open-source or commercial.
>captcha: court vista
>>54483170
Have you used any IE version after IE 6? The most recent version is blazing fast and reliable, and supports privacy and adblocking lists out of the box.
>>54483210
guaranteed replies
>>54483106
If they paying is so important and contribution that big why don't they just close the source?
They don't want to make money selling it?
>>54480868
>Why is it so hard for an "international community of hundreds of avid volunteer programmers" to make something as good as the commercial alternative made by a team of 10 people?
Example?
>>54483273
Because they are not a software company. they just want the functionality that they need, and by leaving it open source someone make make improvements to it that the company can take advantage of without having to pay for it.
Because the private institutions that produce the commercial alternative have the means of actually paying these 10 people who in turn rent themselves to the company in order to produce profits for the people on top. The international community of hundreds of avid volunteer programmers, is just that. Volunteers. In a system where people need to gather money by giving the majority of their time to private institutions in order to survive, voluntary, non-profit work (no matter whether it is a better contribution to society than the commercial alternative ever could be) that doesn't put food on anyone's table is inherently going to be behind, because it's less feasible to have such projects.
>people actually defending management
>>54483273
Linux is licensed under the GPL. If they contribute, they can't close the source.
>>54483281
Basically any major piece of software, such as the programs in Office suites, video editors, image editors, end-user operating systems etc.
>>54480868
lack of monetary incentive, pretty much.
Imagine if Ubuntu users paid a yearly fee to cover code auditing. Devs would stop forking a bunch of small projects and actually focus on the ones which have public demand.
>>54480868
You answered your own question.
>>54484456
>Office
I use openoffice same way id use ms office
>video editors
lol wut
>image editors
krita, gimp...
>operating systems
This one is the biggest joke
Linux BTFO windows big time
especially with the win10 shit
what more?
>commercial alternative
theres commercial foss too dumbass
>>54484595
>>video editors
>lol wut
exactly
>>54484625
What videos do you edit exactly?
>>54480868
>made by a team of 10 people?
Who and what are we talking about here?
>>54484595
>gimp is actually better than Photoshop
Oh boy.
>>54484760
I cut and merge .mp4s to make .webms sometimes
obviously it's not a big necessity of mine, just a hobby, but there are people who need it for work
not OP btw
>>54480868
Do you have a specific product in mind?
>>54484825
>complaining about Microsoft performance
>"I'll never trust Microsoft on anything performance related"
>4 Linux kernel bugs led to a decade of bad performance because schedulers would remain idle instead of delegating work
>causing 23% performance decrease in regular database operations and eating literally millions of dollars for commercial companies using Linux servers
I actually laughed out loud reading that.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/26/the-linux-scheduler-a-decade-of-wasted-cores/
Because those 10 people actually get paid for spending their days working on a project and have the luxury of working together in the same office space, making it piss easy to arrange meetings or questions to each other.
Meanwhile the Open Source group works in their spare time on whatever part they are familiar with, often leaving piss poor documentation and can't even arrange an IRC meeting between the project leaders due to personal lives, timezones and such.
>>54484456
>Office Suites
>Video Editors
>image Editors
>End User Operations Systems
The fuck are you on? Photoshop's dev team most likely dwarfs the number of active contributors to gimp? Likewise for premier. You are delusional if you believe that Photoshop was built with a team of 10 people.
>>54483210
Wincucks, everyone.
>>54484620
Only in theory. The market price of any open source software approaches $0, since anyone can compile from source and undercut those selling it commercially.
Actually, I think most open-source projects are mainly managed by a dozen people at a given time, and those do 90% of the work. The others only contribute there and there occasionally.
>>54485477
>a dozen
Most projects would have far less than that.
>>54483237
>you knew it was bait, but still replied
>>54483088
Linux there is mostly just dumb servers
>>54484937
Yes, and? Windows is slower yet.
>>54484937
So isn't it super embarrasing that windows was still slower...
>>54487543
>>54487250
Great meme. You sure showed him.
>>54480868
Idk
