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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by ksec on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:57AM (#32625897)
>open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure. (and pretty good at infrastructure products).

Oh This is Great. Thank You. Will have to bookmark your comment. Perfectly describe something I have in my mind but couldn't quite put it into precise wordings.

Open Source works, and its desired in infrastructure because everyone relies on them. And its common interest align with everyone.

If we look at the all the success we have in Open Source, most of them are not even on the list. SQLite, MySQL / Postgres, all the Networking Libraries, WebKit / Blink, FFmpeg, GNU Compiler / LLVM, Apache / Nginx etc, etc. Not only are they the dominant position or with substantial market share, they are also all infrastructure related.

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Re:Time Till Open Source Alternative by phendrenad2 on Sunday August 28, 2022 @11:42PM (#32634589)
It's because open-source favors "those who show up and code" (I recall a blog post about the Apache Foundation saying that was what they valued). If you can't code, but you can make UI/UX suggestions, or come up with a way to productize the raw codebase, you're usually ignored or (worse) mistaken for a coder and people ask you when you'll have a PR ready.
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