Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
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Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
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Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#2Would be interesting to research how open source affects indie development.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#3This is a natural progression that wasn't available during the software crisis of the 1970s.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#4Given how open source is eating into the proprietary software market, this is something everyone in the industry, from developers to operators to investors, should be closely watching.
I suspect the biggest change to affect proprietary software is the shift to SaaS rather than open source.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#5This is a natural progression that wasn't available during the software crisis of the 1970s.
Really, there was no "crisis", at least none that I ever came across. Perhaps you could post an example? The 1970s saw the development of UNIX, VMS, CP/M and other enormously successful products.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#6This is a natural progression that wasn't available during the software crisis of the 1970s.
Really, there was no "crisis", at least none that I ever came across. Perhaps you could post an example? The 1970s saw the development of UNIX, VMS, CP/M and other enormously successful products.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really, there was no "crisis", at least none that I ever came across. Perhaps you could post an example? The 1970s saw the development of UNIX, VMS, CP/M and other enormously successful products.
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports...
That would appear to be about the 60s.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#8Given how open source is eating into the proprietary software market, this is something everyone in the industry, from developers to operators to investors, should be closely watching. I suspect the biggest change to affect proprietary software is the shift to SaaS rather than open source.
True; throught a SaaS model a cloud company could make extensive changes to Linux and deploy it to their datacenter on which their services are sold, but without the obligation to give back any of the code because they haven't distributed the code.
I'm not saying this is actually happening, and experience with companies who build on FreeBSD show that upstreaming their changes helps keep the diffs small when pulling down updates around their proprietary code.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#9The conclusion is simply not backed by reality. There are certainly realms where open source has supplanted proprietary counterparts and they all mostly fall under infrastructure type software.
We all use these infrastructure open source software products because they serve needs that practically anyone doing technology work will find themselves to have.
The larger universe of commercial software is HUGE and most of it is proprietary and will remain that way.
Re: Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018)
#10Open source isn't eating all proprietary software.
Open source is enabling proprietary software to be more profitable, because it makes free all the commodity pieces that are needed to make proprietary software work.
Customers would otherwise have to pay for these things (in an ongoing manner) leaving less of their $$$ to spend on your payload.
Open source powers SaaS which is so closed and proprietary that the user doesn't even get to execute the binary code on their own hardware.
Of course, if your business is selling operating systems, development tools, databases and other infrastructure stuff, then, yup, open source has eaten your business.