this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2024
350 points (96.3% liked)

Technology

59534 readers
3195 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
350
What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
209 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] parpol@programming.dev -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Except most big open source project are developed by companies, and only the tiny ones aren't. This applies to all open source projects on all platforms.

Also, most of them already are better. People just don't want to change their layouts and workflows. And people also don't value privacy, which if they would, they wouldn't rate the proprietary software as half as good.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. For example:

  • LibreOffice - Collabora offers paid support for larger companies and does a ton of development on the core
  • WINE - CodeWeavers has their own proprietary version (CrossOver) that they sell as a commercial product; oh, and Valve helps a ton too
  • GNOME - RedHat/IBM funds it and most things in its ecosystem for its commercial customers

And so on. Most big FOSS projects are backed by one or more companies with full-time developers supporting it. The difference is that the license makes lock-in a lot less likely, since the community (read: non-paid devs) will likely patch in compatibility (i.e. file support, data export, etc).