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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
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.
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.
Exactly. These companies have more feedback than they could ever parse. They only listen if said feedback results in loss of profit.
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
That is a contradiction in terminus, those two words don't go together.
Enterprise development is always managed by middle managers who have no idea what they're doing yet think they're god. I've seen many enterprise level products, I've yet to see a good one.
Oohhh, IBM websphere comes to mind now, and I committed a little in my mouth. Enormous and gruelingly expensive product that is an unmanageable resource hog while similar open source product fly circles around it. I managed that back in the day for one of the top courier logistics and packages companies in the world. Starting it up took over an hour, not shitting you, when it crashed, there were absolutely useless multi gig dump files and then the restart that would take hours yet again. If you saw what it could do it was just... Cute.
I will never again in my life use an enterprise level product
Corporate apps do tend to have game breaking bugs fixed sooner, while some open source apps just don't
You're kidding, right?
Saying that after Microsoft CTO had to testify before Congress how the US government could be hacked by China because Microsoft refused to patch security holes just so they would look better, that says it all
Yep, their interests definitely do not match with the consumer. By game breaking bugs, I mean bugs that make software unusable. Like how libreoffice likes to just... crash randomly.