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Re:Don't create for an imaginary group of people by AussieWog93 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:42PM (#27456433)
>I wonder if passion projects are of higher quality

Based on my personal experience, any software that requires a large team to build and maintain seems to be better when it's commercial (and usually proprietary). This is not the case for one-man software projects.

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Re:Don't create for an imaginary group of people by josephg on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:15AM (#27456912)
SQLite, NodeJS, the linux kernel, the rust compiler, postgres and others would like a word.

NodeJS tried to move to an industry governance board model around the release of 0.12, where commercial interests took part in running the project. It nearly killed nodejs entirely.

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Re:Don't create for an imaginary group of people by eptcyka on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:27AM (#27457905)
People definitely get paid for work on more than half of those projects.
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Re:Don't create for an imaginary group of people by josephg on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:47AM (#27458049)
So? None of them are commercial or proprietary projects - which was the contention. There’s nothing inherent about opensource that precludes having people paid to work on it. It’s just harder.
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