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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's usually actually the other way around in my experience

Anything that has the label "pro" or "enterprise" suuuuuucks, is badly designed, full of bugs.. take the open source app, and it just works

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s just so much more opportunity for feedback, use case stories, and a variety of perspectives in open source development.

Good enterprise development does all those things as well, but there is always a bigger barrier to the user when you have to design behind a curtain.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure it's not lack of user feedback. It's MBAs deciding the user is wrong and unprofitable, therefore better add more tracking and ads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Exactly. These companies have more feedback than they could ever parse. They only listen if said feedback results in loss of profit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, and not just ads. At one of my jobs at a SECURITY company the bugs are considered a liability. Features were prioritised, vulnerabilities be damned.

After that experience I doubt most proprietary software is more secure than open source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Corporate apps do tend to have game breaking bugs fixed sooner, while some open source apps just don't