Essay I want someone to write: if you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain how much 1990s FOSS was driven by how *low-quality* proprietary software was.
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Essay I want someone to write: if you weren’t there, it’s hard to explain how much 1990s FOSS was driven by how *low-quality* proprietary software was. Is enshittification opening a similar window? If not, why not? (My gut is “not” but elucidating why/why not might point the way towards areas of opportunity, either for open or something open-like.)
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@luis_in_brief proprietary software was also very expensive. Anything related to graphics required significant investment and you had to pay even for an IDE or C/C++ compilers. I remember paying a license for the text editor I started using in 1995.
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