Personally, I don't think open source is hostile; people are hostile.
This is true, but I have to say we need to specify hostility. I don't think they are necessarily saying open-source is too hostile, but I think there is a different interpretation. What I see you and Ben Halpern (who also commented) see in this Tweet is that open-source is too hostile for business. Let me offer an alternate interpretation.
"We think open source is hostile, but it's just kindergarten compared to real world business."
If we break it down, I think he is saying that open-source is not competitive. "We think open source is hostile" is, in my mind, saying that it is no more than a belief. "but it's just kindergarten compared to real world business." to me says that the reality is that open source is still mostly a hobbiest idea not ready to take off in the mainstream yet.
I actually agree with this version. In it's current state, open source is simply not competitive. We still treat it like charity and unprofessional groups. We have three types of groups. We have the enterprise corporations, the foundations, and mildly organized teams. The enterprise corporations are uncommon, and mostly for Linux servers than anything else. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, all fall under this. Oracle too, but they are more proprietary than open-source. Almost everything else is foundations. Software Freedom Conservancy, The Linux Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Instant Messaging Freedom, Python Foundation, etc. We also have the teams that aren't enterprise corporations, but definitely not major businesses. These will be your elementary Inc, GIMP, System76, etc.
We do not have a major corporation within open-source that prioritizes selling to the users. We have small companies, but nothing comparable to Microsoft or Adobe. "it's just kindergarten compared to real world business." is not saying we are hostile, it is saying we are weak.
Let me clarify one thing, I am saying we don't have something as powerful or as much as a household name as Adobe or Microsoft. For open-source to compete, we need something on the level of Discord Inc, and we simply do not have something like that.
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This is true, but I have to say we need to specify hostility. I don't think they are necessarily saying open-source is too hostile, but I think there is a different interpretation. What I see you and Ben Halpern (who also commented) see in this Tweet is that open-source is too hostile for business. Let me offer an alternate interpretation.
"We think open source is hostile, but it's just kindergarten compared to real world business."
If we break it down, I think he is saying that open-source is not competitive. "We think open source is hostile" is, in my mind, saying that it is no more than a belief. "but it's just kindergarten compared to real world business." to me says that the reality is that open source is still mostly a hobbiest idea not ready to take off in the mainstream yet.
I actually agree with this version. In it's current state, open source is simply not competitive. We still treat it like charity and unprofessional groups. We have three types of groups. We have the enterprise corporations, the foundations, and mildly organized teams. The enterprise corporations are uncommon, and mostly for Linux servers than anything else. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, all fall under this. Oracle too, but they are more proprietary than open-source. Almost everything else is foundations. Software Freedom Conservancy, The Linux Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Instant Messaging Freedom, Python Foundation, etc. We also have the teams that aren't enterprise corporations, but definitely not major businesses. These will be your elementary Inc, GIMP, System76, etc.
We do not have a major corporation within open-source that prioritizes selling to the users. We have small companies, but nothing comparable to Microsoft or Adobe. "it's just kindergarten compared to real world business." is not saying we are hostile, it is saying we are weak.
Let me clarify one thing, I am saying we don't have something as powerful or as much as a household name as Adobe or Microsoft. For open-source to compete, we need something on the level of Discord Inc, and we simply do not have something like that.