1/ My unpopular take: Free and Open Source Software culture often goes way past the point of absurdity in its idealism. It often winds up doing to software what file sharing did to music: It devalues the work and the creators behind it, and it breeds an entitlement culture.
The whole thing about open source software being subject to many eyes and stakeholders, and therefore bugs get fixed faster just doesn't seem to play out in practice. Even the popular stuff. What winds up actually happening seems to be the tragedy of the commons.
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That's my experience at least, having been developing for almost 20 years. Your mileage may vary.
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My mileage not only varies but goes in the opposite direction. I'm a developer since I was little more than a kid, so more than 25 years if you also count cheating in nibbles.bas and editing the hex in x-wing and tie fighter savegames to have all the medals.
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