Claire Xen  🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🧙🏻‍♀️ BLM  🏴 🚩

That’s what KDE and GNOME said about desktop environments 20 years ago. Difference is new generations of FPGAs still are proprietary chunks of silicon. While “open” tools are great, no one is making an economic decision based on philosophy.

Maybe in the US… many EU backed projects have to choose tools based on their openness if they want to get the money at all. So yes indeed they are making economic decisions based on philosophy of the tools they use.

Also speaking for myself here: I do vote all the time with my wallet. Buying based on philosophy. Not everything is just focused on the VC funders ideals of margins and profit maximization. I am aware that I am likely a minority, but still.

That’s a fundamental difference for me. I don’t vote based on philosophy. I vote on what gets my job done.

Why not both? :)

Explaining to a client I missed a deadline because I was waiting for a patch to be applied to a fork on GitHub rarely goes well.

But your client is ok with you explaining that you missed a deadline because of a bug in a commercial software and you being too small of a fish for them to bother fixing it for you. :) You can always apply the patch in an open source software package yourself you know? :)

Blah. That argument is worse than “fix it yourself!” Unless you’ve spent years studying the code, the power to get a fix is no different. Except commercial software you have the power of payment. Maybe small and limited, but better than community standing.