Moin

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Cake day: July 27th, 2021

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  • More importantly, I think the real value of open source lies in the fact that it’s not driven by commercial incentives. Let’s say you found a perfect commercial product that addresses your needs. Sooner or later this product will stop working the way you want. Companies need to be profitable to continue existing and that means that their software has to evolve and chase what current fads are, if you didn’t want changes then you’re out of luck. If a company goes out of business you’re also out of luck.

    Nah, there are a lot of open source companies. Also very big ones. There are also many that open source large parts or just some applications. If they do a change that the community doesn’t like, they do a fork.


  • Open Source should always be preferred. It has the possibility to evolve into something great. Closed Source Software can stop working at any given time. At any time the behavior, the UI/UX, its “encryption”, its Features can change or require you to pay for it. OSS will always be open Source. If the Developers change or delete a Feature you like, you are able to make a Fork. You and everybody else have the power to make the software that is run to behave the way you like it to run. Everybody could verify that the software does the things its intended to do. Everybody can learn from principals and code of OSS to create a better world.