![]() Usually there’s a central core working on and maintaining a project with many people contributing to the code.Īnd the central core is typically very small, leading to stability issues. This is why, on a software “geologic time scale,” open-source is DOA, and why I said When professional developers working on a commercial product lose interest and move on, they are simply replaced. When open-source contributors lose interest / move on, the continued stability of the software is only assured by the uptake of contributors. Open-source maintainers contribute out of interest, while professional software developers contribute out of career choice. And that made all the difference, because for software to survive over the “long-haul,” it must be continually maintained. What it always has been, though, is commercial for-sale software. ![]() The product that is Microsoft Office wasn’t always the market behemoth it is today all products start from zero. xlsx files, so I’m not seeing the lock-in or proprietary formats as an issue, nor the subsequent issues. The progeny of Star Office can read/write. In my opinion, vendor lock-in to proprietary formats, marketing and initial costs of switching. ![]() Unless you think there was no capital investment and the time of the employees is worthless, there’s inherent value in Obsidian as an intellectual property. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the finding and the getting of it. That’s uh, six thousand months or five hundred years scrabbling over mountains, going hungry and thirsty. His find represents not only his own labor but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. After six months, one of 'em is lucky - one out of the thousand. I suppose I should have included more of the quote from Treasure of the Sierra Madre:Ī thousand men, say, go searching for gold. I am speaking of investment value, which includes the time employees put into the development of a product, and the initial capital investment. You are speaking of the nebulous concept of market capitalization value, which is a kind of weird measure of faith. WhatsApp wasn’t worth 22 billion because of the effort.
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