Comment by alexandre_m
Comment by alexandre_m a day ago
> What hurt open source in the past was its inability to keep up with the quality and feature depth of closed source competitors
Quality was rarely the reason open source lagged in certain domains. Most of the time, open source solutions were technically superior. What actually hurt open source were structural forces, distribution advantages, and enterprise biases.
One could make an argument that open source solutions often lacked good UX historically, although that has changed drastically the past 20 years.
For most professional software, the open source options are toys. Is there anything like an open source DAW, for example? It's not because music producers are biased against open source, it's because the economics of open source are shitty unless you can figure out how to get a company to fund development.