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by anonyme-honteux 929 days ago
NeXT under Steve Jobs had a maximum of 500 people working with him in .

There has been much more efforts than that in desktop linux.

Yet NeXT delivered a mostly coherent programming platform, back in the 1990s.

One thing NeXT didn't do is to introduce shitloads of useless complexity with fragmentation for the sake of it and half assed solutions on top of that.

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NeXT had Steve Jobs. And I don't mean a man of his calibre, I mean a person saying yes and no to features. This is sorely lacking in the open-source world, where they have a total aversion to any kind of structure and oversight.