by jqpabc123 on 8/27/2022, 1:10:52 PM
by rektide on 8/27/2022, 4:19:35 PM
Bruce Sterling had a throw-away mention in his 1994 book about tornado chasers Heavy Weather, saying that in this future no one paid for regular software but everyone shelled out (perhaps subscribed even?) to groupware, software that worked together, because it was just too damned much of a pain in the ass to do anything else.
For all the p2p popularity & interest- ipfs, dat, hyper, various blockchains- it feels like there's still very little progress. Even if we take the easy path of building centralized servers, there's few architectures & systems that can help up rapidly develop "multiplayer" software systems.
by simonblack on 8/27/2022, 11:55:10 PM
It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap ... solution that everyone uses.
That's the perfect definition for "The Innovator's Dilemma", the 1997 book by Clayton M. Christensen: what happened in the hard-drive industry, and other industries, as cheaper alternatives arrived and put the previous 'top-dogs' out of business.
Yes, Open Source is killing the software market --- everything is moving to become a subscription/service.
What this means for users --- you'll pay over and over again for what used to be available for a one time fee.
What this means for developers --- less opportunity to earn a living doing what you love. How do you make money developing Open Source? Short answer --- you don't.
This is all a good thing, right? Right?