Without a doubt. And yet: without open source, pretty much everything digital would come to an end straight away. Sometimes what’s visible isn’t what really matters.
I have definitely seen MS Office and Visual Studio stall at a level and stay there until after they’re clearly surpassed by open source competition, then they fund another round of development and … change, some might say improve, but often it looks like change for the sake of change, especially in Office.
Without a doubt. And yet: without open source, pretty much everything digital would come to an end straight away. Sometimes what’s visible isn’t what really matters.
I have definitely seen MS Office and Visual Studio stall at a level and stay there until after they’re clearly surpassed by open source competition, then they fund another round of development and … change, some might say improve, but often it looks like change for the sake of change, especially in Office.