Re:I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
by coldtea on Sunday June 12, 2022 @01:58PM
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>Paying for software does not have a relationship with quality.
I'm taking "paying for software" here to mean "commercial" vs "open source", or "incoming money oriented" vs "community building oriented" development.
Since, of course, you can also pay for open source, and there are free editions of proprietary commercial software, and foss can be sponsored by a big company who pays for 99% of the developer time through selling something else - so a distinction based on "paying" alone is not useful.
So, does open source/free vs proprietary/commercial make any difference with regards to quality?
It might not make in abstract, across the whole market, but in certain aspects and markets it does.
No open source DAW (audio/midi editor) or NLE (video editor) is even close to commercial ones, for example.
If you plotted features, maturity, stability, performance, etc. for foss and commercial versions of this types of product, you'd see a clear clustering of proprietary commercial software where you pay a lot for and free foss ones.
I'm taking "paying for software" here to mean "commercial" vs "open source", or "incoming money oriented" vs "community building oriented" development.
Since, of course, you can also pay for open source, and there are free editions of proprietary commercial software, and foss can be sponsored by a big company who pays for 99% of the developer time through selling something else - so a distinction based on "paying" alone is not useful.
So, does open source/free vs proprietary/commercial make any difference with regards to quality?
It might not make in abstract, across the whole market, but in certain aspects and markets it does.
No open source DAW (audio/midi editor) or NLE (video editor) is even close to commercial ones, for example.
If you plotted features, maturity, stability, performance, etc. for foss and commercial versions of this types of product, you'd see a clear clustering of proprietary commercial software where you pay a lot for and free foss ones.
The same is true for many pro fields.