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Brodie Robertson: Open Source Software Is Not A Democracy (www.youtube.com)

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"Open Source Software Is Not A Democracy". Brodie Robertson. 2024-05-26T21:00:18. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gphY5Okx_vs.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like your idea of "natural selection" for OSS, but I'm not sure I understand the parallel that you are drawing between democracy and natural selection. Would you mind elaborating?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Projects that have a big community tend to last longer. If the project does things that alienate the users, the community shrinks, thus endangering the prohect's future. The community can mean desktop users or businesses, doesn't matter. My point is, users have a saying, wether devs like it or not.