as someone that has had to ‘compete’ against open source offerings, it’s a major pain in the butt
Any competition is a pain in the butt. Deal with it.
if anyone is wondering why software development is being pushed to 3rd world countries, you can thank the open source community as the business types continue to try and compete by cutting costs
Wrong. Softwre development was being pushed to 3rd word countries before OSS became the popular "in" thing to do. They are returning because companies are finally realizing that the developers were correct when they warned about the quality of the code being produced there.
competing with another company is one thing... as we both have various costs to deal with. open source has no over head development costs.
Wrong. Softwre development was being pushed to 3rd word countries before OSS became the popular "in" thing to do. They are returning because companies are finally realizing that the developers were correct when they warned about the quality of the code being produced there.
as someone that has run businesses offshore, i can tell you first hand the quality available outside the US. the trick with offshoring is having senior personnel overseeing them locally, not remotely. another model would be for the company to on-shore people, train them, then ship them back. being overseen by senior people is still required.
and yes, open source people are anti-capitalists. the 'all information should be free' people are a hair from full blown commies.
btw, the free software foundation was founded in boston in 1985. i was working in boston at the time and remember the arguments. the push to offshore the development costs started by the mid to late 90s and was in full swing by 2001.