The more recent the proprietary product is, the faster an open-source version will be developed. It tends to be one year nowadays.

The unit (in days) is the TTOSA: Time Till Open Source Alternative. It is established on the first commit date.

About the data:

Two things become clear with this chart: first, there is an explosion of dots after the mid-2000s, and this probably is correlated with the rise of the Web and subsequently the GitHub era (GitHub was founded in 2008). Second, the trend is downward.

But an open-source alternative is not directly of higher quality yet.

The final result tends to be that everything will be open-source!

There are two ways to compete in the software-for-sale market: support, hosting, and other or monetizing the database.

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The social utility of a given software package is not necessarily tied to mass-market adoption. A software package can be trendy in a tight-knit community, while holding very little social utility for the mass market, and this is fine. This is the case for most software packages that exist in the world.

If a FLOSS matches the need for a small part of the community, it is then fine too !

Unfortunately, society teaches us that we should grow at any cost, which means that inexperienced maintainers can be swayed by such arguments to make harmful decisions about their projects.

The sucess of a project is measured by the biggest number: the number of stars on GitHub, amount of forks, ...