Comment by dagmx
10 months ago
There’s a significant difference between open source and proprietary software.
With proprietary software you usually have a corporate mandate, a goal etc to achieve. Any new tech is achieved as part of that drive. You can get people on board or not based on that, and once you’ve decided, there is someone to answer to if you can’t deliver.
Open source doesn’t have that. A project can go in twenty different directions at once, you can say you all agree to something and then have people sabotage it without being answerable to anyone.
Does that make open source worse? No. It’s the trade off for being open, which is extremely valuable but it is a very different push in terms of a product.
For me it wasn't about open source vs proprietary software. I just wanted to say that in areas like game development, online entertainment or just really anything that require interacting with big communities of people on internet there is no way to avoid attacks on yourself.
So leading well known open source project is politics on a small scale and there will be a lot of people who want to hurt or manipulate you.
If you decide to become a public person and want to have fans and supporters then be ready to have haters as well.