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0 pointsmixmastamyk5y ago0 comments

It costs time and money to do that. Who is gonna port, pay, and gonna do it?

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I understand it will take effort and don’t have answers for those questions.

This is all a lot cheaper on open systems. Just saying.

Eric Raymond explained why: use value. Open systems can be exploited easily and the people who use them get high use value because of all that.

Incentives to port and build on known open systems are stronger, barriers to access lower.

Result: more FOSS on said system

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mch825y ago

I understand it will take effort and don’t have answers for those questions.

This is all a lot cheaper on open systems. Just saying.

Eric Raymond explained why: use value. Open systems can be exploited easily and the people who use them get high use value because of all that.

Incentives to port and build on known open systems are stronger, barriers to access lower.

Result: more FOSS on said system

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse