Until Women will get wet when they hear that you are an open source developer this will never be the case.
You are better off hitting the gym instead of developing software for free.
Time Till Open Source Alternative
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#202It's amusing that, according to the article, there has been a "compelling open source alternative to" twitter since 2016. Yet, the ending of the article is a request for the reader to share the article on... twitter.
Lol what a nugget! Summarizes the article pretty well.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is also why Google sucks at so many things, despite having the best offering on paper. GCP is honestly great, but a terrible product. Stadia? Zillion chat apps? Google Inbox by Gmail by Google? Google wallet pay Android pay wallet? They all work great and would be best in class if they were decent products and you could figure out how to get them to work at all.
You’re cherry-picking examples. Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and Chrome are extraordinarily successful products.
Being such succesful products, all of these taken together probably generate sufficient income to cover Google's Ad business...
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#204How much market share did these alternatives take?
With few exceptions the Desktop OSS apps are simply inferior to commercial options because UX requires consistency requires both an organization that is hard to form in OSS, and it requires extreme amounts of dull repetitive work of specific roles (graphic/interaction designers) that are still rare in OSS.
Few of the larger applications in the commercial column will be significantly replaced by the ones in the OSS column or a future OSS alternative.
> All software will be open source, and no one will make money with software.
Most software is boring niche business software. Most developers work on software that most people will never hear about. And no one would ever create it unless it is to pay their bills.
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#205The chart is interesting because it misses the important part - it covers time, but not adoption. For example, adoption of GIMP has not likely materially increased over time (as a relative percent of total addressable market) IMHO, what the author gets wrong what so many people who claim this (they are not the first, or the last) get wrong - open source as a whole sucks at building products , but is great at building…
This sometimes might be true, but there are many counterexamples. If you look at the web content management systems, the market is dominated by well-engineered open source CMS products, e.g., Drupal, ez Publish, typo3... Even for webshops this true: presta shop, opencart, ...
It might seem like domination but its just the biggest field. The pie is huge, everybody needs CMS. So everybody eats and if you focus on one segment it might see like its domination.
I would say if anything every other website now is Webflow. Every shop is Shopify. And highest quality CMSes are commercial products like Craft CMS or Kirby CMS. So serious projects often grab those instead of OSS offerings.
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re cherry-picking examples. Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and Chrome are extraordinarily successful products.
Being such succesful products, all of these taken together probably generate sufficient income to cover Google's Ad business...
> Being such succesful products, all of these taken together probably generate sufficient income to cover Google's Ad business...
Assuming this post is sarcasm, Are we really going to criticise Google Search for not being profitable?
Google has an ad business because of these products, not seperate to them.
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#207> It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap (in fact, free!) solution that everyone uses.
I'm not sure about that: plenty of people/orgs are okay with using software that someone else will be responsible for running and managing and therefore won't be interested in self-hosted offerings (though one could feasibly argue that there could be managed open source offerings).
In my org, I offered to help with self-hosted Mattermost/Rocket.Chat or another chat solution, since that would allow for a centralized platform for all of the company developers to get in touch and organically self-organize into interest groups, thus easing the friction of communication.
And yet, nobody was interested in setting aside the resources for an instance and getting everyone on board, so the plan never materialized, even though I also run my own instances for personal projects etc. So in the end people stuck around on multiple distributed Skype/Slack/Teams and possibly other chat solutions, it all being a bit too fragmented and sometimes there even being message history limits to deal with.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would not call 9 years ago "recently" (March 2013 is when Adobe announced it would no longer sell boxed copies of the Creative Suite software). Adobe obviously doesn't care. They treat their customers like crap and actively try to extract as much money out of them as possible. A few years ago (or less) they worded their description of their monthly subscription very carefully, so as to mislead people into thinking…
> They treat their customers like crap I'm not a fan of Adobe's payment practices. But they do treat us well in one regard. They give us one thing that we can't get anywhere else. The best photo editing software on the market.
Their products havent changed in like a decade. Its actually getting worse, slower and buggier.
Its best photo editing software because people are so used to it its hard to move and everybody new has to learn it because its industry standard.
But photo editing is not some arcane magic like it was in 90s. Freaking photopea.com does what photoshop does often much faster in browser. Not to mention million other affinity/pixelmator/acorn native apps.
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#209Why would it be wrong to earn money selling software ?
Or why is it good that you earn less and less money for writing and publishing software ?
I don’t get it.
Working for free is the new normal ?
Re: Time Till Open Source Alternative
#210The chart is interesting because it misses the important part - it covers time, but not adoption. For example, adoption of GIMP has not likely materially increased over time (as a relative percent of total addressable market) IMHO, what the author gets wrong what so many people who claim this (they are not the first, or the last) get wrong - open source as a whole sucks at building products , but is great at building…
> open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure.
Yes, but Android? When companies promote OSS products, they become successful.
> totally orthogonal to building "a good product that people want to use"
An OSS product will not end up on shelves with glitzy packaging for people to buy unless some company burns money to do that. It's not a fundamental law and OSS isn't orthogonal to anything.