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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by nickpsecurity on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:11PM (#12726948)
"This isn't a moral issue, it's simple economics."

I'm going to modify that a bit to say it's mostly economics but also barrier to entry. Wirth's Oberon etc work was designed to be easy to understand from language to architecture to tools. Students with little experience regularly ported it, redid it, and so on. I've seen similar in FOSS projects well-designed for easy understanding. I think many of these popular projects were not designed that way to the point the real and incidental (i.e. implementation) complexity is to high for most to justify time in. I know it is for me for several, major projects.

So, we need to remember that. More FOSS being designed for contributors as much as users might increase number of contributions.

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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by tomcam on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:51AM (#12732789)
Profoundly true. Toolsets change so frequently these days that the bare minimum of instructions you often see on the homepage of a project are absolutely useless unless you already know that particular segment of the development arena intimately. Oberon is an absolutely spectacular example of the alternate universe you propose.
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