| > In general there is plenty of good FOSS software, but there is also plenty of bad FOSS software Yes. That's very different than saying there's 10 bad choices, though. IMO, the good outweighs the bad, but you won't get an argument from me about there being examples of bad FOSS. > if you spread what people you have between different projects you're not going to get the resources you need Personally, I'm very happy that I have the option to run XMonad. What @detaro wrote is spot on here: "You can not assume that all the people working on 10 alternatives otherwise would work on one project together. That might work with your employees and work projects, but not with volunteers" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177915). I highly doubt the XMonad developers would even be interested in working on the WM that you're envisioning, so there's no loss in having them spend their efforts on a WM that does interest them. It's definitely made my life richer. > Case in point - every company that's tried seriously to build consumer-friendly linux products has basically had to re-build the interface themselves (Nokia/Jolla, Samsing Tizen, PalmOS, Google). That seems like an odd example to me, since you're arguing desktop interfaces but those are all examples of mobile interfaces. Are you sure there was even a FOSS mobile interface available for those companies to use if they wanted? I think that also overlooks that companies may choose to make a new interface to differentiate their product. |