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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by wolco on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:11AM (#23167617)
Have you seen your local software? It is rarely about making great software.. good enough.

Open source tries to make great software. Does the best job.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by jlj on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:40AM (#23167980)
When good enough software solves the right business problem, it frees up resources to solve the next most important business problem. Good enough software runs many great businesses.

The one unicorn I worked for had so much cash to spend, there were at least 3 teams of 8-10 engineers on the same floor trying to solve similar business and infrastructure problems with different combinations of open source software.

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