Comment Re:Okay, I'll be the one to say it... (Score 1) 416
I'm not dismissing closed source, I simply said what I thought was true, but you're right and I agree. Programs which are niche perhaps are more capable of having closed source programs lead. I don't know though, I think it mostly comes down to companies needing to get used to working together. If you need a program to do something, you should find others who need it as well, and then pay for its development collaboratively, or if the way this happens is with someone making it first and then getting support from companies to make it better, whichever. Maybe niche open source software would actually do better than more mainstream software simply because there is less competition from other open source software. Ecosystems are pretty complex and hard to predict, that is my conclusion. ^^