Comment by fellowmartian
1 month ago
I’m not suggesting grandpa reads code, contributors do. We all know that most commercial code is much shittier than open source. Sure, commercial code usually covers more edge cases and has better UX, but is cobbled together from legacy and random product asks.
> contributors do
More users != more contributors. As software gets more popular, you begin getting 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 users for every contributor.
This doesn't just affect non-programmers. We can't even police NPM.
People want it to be true so that it will be a talking point, but it's not true, and we need to find new talking points that align with facts that are evident outside the echo chambers.
NPM is... special... It's up to platform owners to set standards and police. NPM's failures have nothing to do with open source as a whole.
> We all know that most commercial code is much shittier than open source
Citation needed. Seriously.
I'm not the one who made that assertion, but... Windows Millenium Edition almost makes his case all by itself.
That makes the case that a _single_ piece of commercial code was shitty.
I could make the same argument about MongoDB of a decade ago implying that all open source is trash...
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> contributors do
I would argue most code of any license is not actually regularly audited if at all, and certainly nowhere near the levels people seem to think they are.
> We all know that most commercial code is much shittier than open source
citation needed
> I would argue most code of any license is not actually regularly audited if at all, and certainly nowhere near the levels people seem to think they are.
Every device should run OpenBSD. And only the audited part.