real reasons why people DON’T use opensource:
- bugs in apps with no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )
- assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )
- enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )
- and if all of the above combined it just creates resistance against opensource
small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step…
False dichotomy. You can get paid for writing open source software. That was my entire career. It’s a choice; a matter of values and priorities. Not every byte I wrote was open source, especially in the beginning, but it’s not hard to go that way, and thrive.