News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018). Parent comment

Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by est31 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:00AM (#21878987)
> operating systems

The desktop OS market has basically two players: Windows and Mac OS. Desktop Linux is so small it's no relevant force at all.

> development tools

What about the intellij tools? They cost quite a large amount, and it's a monthly cost. MS Visual Studio is still around as well.

> databases

SAP is still a major force on the German market. The company behind it is amongst the 30 biggest public German companies.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by z_open on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:47AM (#21883214)
You are picking out exceptions. The parent didn't say it's not possible to make money in these spaces, just that OSS is eating it up. And desktop operating systems are in the small minority of all operating systems in use today.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Open-source and the demise of proprietary software (2018) by sudosysgen on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:12PM (#21879710)
Intellij only succeeds due to open source community editions.
[ Parent | on HN ]