• mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know how much effort thoose proprietary software companies put into the actual software. Why is windows so shit? Why is whatsapp buggy? They try to get money with shit software with no optimisations at all.

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      2 months ago

      How many open source projects have 50 million lines of code like Windows, or legal agreements related to backwards compatibility and version support guarantees?

      A for-profit company is going to focus on whatever generates revenue, sure. But crappy software will lose customers in a non-monopoly scenario. They’re not exactly incentivized to make broken things nobody wants.