@azure@pleroma.site Agreed, just-so stories often sound plausible and then some releases a great Free software implementation of $THING.
I do suspect there are some domains where the incentives don't work for FOSS though. Projects needs to be fun to work on (for small hobbyist/side projects) or valuable for corporations to publish (so they hire someone to work on it).
AAA games or tax software probably won't become FOSS. Am I too pessimistic?
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Do any tech streamers try new software live? It'd be a really fun way of doing UX testing.
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?
It feels like a mature software project is one where bugs require multiple commits to fix.
You've hammered out the basic issues, so the remaining issues are often weird interactions between components.