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by mkl 2348 days ago
This doesn't make sense to me. There's lots of open source software that's widely used, but most of it is not the "most optimized, most efficient, most advanced".

I think you are looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. The software I remember from 20 years ago was generally slow, clunky, unstable, and often didn't work very well.