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Re:How work has gotten better by Qantourisc on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @02:02AM (#11665412)
FOSS still ships, why wouldn't your team ?
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Re:How work has gotten better by nvdk on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @07:07AM (#11666290)
Most successful FOSS projects are backed by companies who have employees work on them. I would love to see some statistics on pure "hobby FOSS" vs "commercial FOSS" and their deliverables.

Based on my own experience I would say most hobby FOSS projects ship a lot less frequently than the commercial FOSS projects.

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Re:How work has gotten better by AstralStorm on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @03:27AM (#11665660)
One in how many projects ships? And of those, how many are actually useful and useable?

Scratching the itch goes only so far.

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Re:How work has gotten better by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:41AM (#11667029)
Easy there or we might discover that FOSS numbers are better than enterprise ones.

There's a very low bar to pass, and FOSS is going back into the UNIX's small software philosophy[1]. Scratching an itch may likely go far enough.

[1] Yes, sometimes too small. Maybe we need new kinds of consolidation projects.

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