He kind of misses the fact that there is a market out there, and that, well, growing carrots on your own farm doesn't really help if there is NO MARKET for carrots.
Saying "Do not develop for proprietary platforms" is absurd, that's where the money is, that's what everyone uses at the moment.
In a good software product, the core elements will be portable, and moving to a new platform, if need be, will not be a problem... it's analogous to a sharecropper using his own techniques to grow food, which are only known to him, and also having his own, smaller farm on the side, as well as having a few leads on new land where people are encouraging him to come over and develop. His big sharecrop might not be great, but he has options.
Saying it is about OSS is rediculous.. if Linux for some reason ceases to be a desirable platform for people, your software business is in the same boat... your farm up and left.
There are many rasons to develop for OSS.. but this isn't one of them. Developing for Apple, or Microsoft, or anyone, yes, you have to worrk if that one vendor stops supporting development.. but to stop supporting developers on your OS is suicide.
The point is that most companies don't care what is on the backend, so the money isn't only on the proprietary platforms. That is why he pushes using all browser based software, it makes the platform irrelevant.
Yes, Linux could cease to be used in all of industry. Which is more likely though, a single vendor disappearing or yanking support, or a widespread product that can be supported or picked up by anyone disappearing? It is the same old story, if the entire OSS community just dropped Linux/Apache/wh
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Great rant.. but... (Score:4, Insightful)
Saying "Do not develop for proprietary platforms" is absurd, that's where the money is, that's what everyone uses at the moment.
In a good software product, the core elements will be portable, and moving to a new platform, if need be, will not be a problem...
it's analogous to a sharecropper using his own techniques to grow food, which are only known to him, and also having his own, smaller farm on the side, as well as having a few leads on new land where people are encouraging him to come over and develop. His big sharecrop might not be great, but he has options.
Saying it is about OSS is rediculous.. if Linux for some reason ceases to be a desirable platform for people, your software business is in the same boat... your farm up and left.
There are many rasons to develop for OSS.. but this isn't one of them. Developing for Apple, or Microsoft, or anyone, yes, you have to worrk if that one vendor stops supporting development.. but to stop supporting developers on your OS is suicide.
I think you're missing his point. (Score:1)
Yes, Linux could cease to be used in all of industry. Which is more likely though, a single vendor disappearing or yanking support, or a widespread product that can be supported or picked up by anyone disappearing? It is the same old story, if the entire OSS community just dropped Linux/Apache/wh