When the Contribution Model Fails

“What happened to open source being the cradle of innovation,
instead of lagging behind commercial competitors? In Gimp, you have
the Open Source stereotype. It’s not as good as commercial
counterparts, and lags several years behind in features. Some Open
Source projects really seem to suffer from this. I’d suggest that
X.org is another that just can’t keep up with feature requests. Is
it because of a poor codebase that people struggle to build on? Is
it because of lack of interest in the project from outside devs?
I’m not sure, but it really does bring down the quality of some big
Open Source projects.”

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