![]() ![]() That's because the market process is not actually optimizing for providing value in the first place. The same feedback system that initially aligns producers and consumers doesn't have a stop condition for "the most value for customers". What is however ignored or left unsaid is that, it's true up to a point. ![]() A fact that's often brought up in defense of free markets and entrepreneurship. It's an undeniable fact that competitive pressure and desire to make money incentivize people to solve other people's problems, leading to products that get cheaper and better-aligned to customers' needs over time. ![]() That is the failure of market optimization nobody wants to talk about. > So much software in the modern era has horrible UX because the vendor's goals aren't aligned with the users' goals, where really the users' goals should be the only thing you care about as a company. So its much better to make sure that every open source project has a way to fund itself and its developers by making money in some way. And even when someone takes over the project, there is no guarantee that the original vision and quality will be kept. The net is filled with abandoned projects. Now, the assumption of open source community is that, when that happens, someone else will take over the project and it will just keep going on.Įxcept it rarely happens except for very large projects. But the time and effort put into it suddenly becomes difficult to justify when you have more responsibilities at work, or even further, a family to which you have to justify spending that time on that project. Its all fun and games when you are in college or fresh out of college and maintaining an open source project. Most of the projects that cannot fund themselves eventually get abandoned, leaving you, as the user, hanging.Īfter getting burned by that a few times, I learned that the only way to deal with it was to ensure that those who run a project will be able to justify putting time into it when the actual realities and responsibilities of life like career, family, children etc start raining down. As a user, if I cannot see that the software makers are either a big, well backed project OR at least they are able to sustain themselves by selling premium versions etc, I avoid using it. ![]()
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