@SEANMCAD said:
On one side you have a group of very talented developers some of which are thinking about leaving and some managers of which already have left because of the lack of leadership and vision at Microsoft in the consumer market place.
On the other side you have the entire globe of developers.
As an example borrowing from what Gabe Newel says 'one company simply can not compete with its users when the framework is open'.
So two dynamics, one is the sheer amount of developers in the open source world and two top talents arent all that intrested in working for Microsoft anymore.
In theory it sounds amazing yet it more often than not fails in practice. That has always been the problem of open source.
It's true that everyone can work on it but that means that working on it is nobody's job. Rarely does it happen that someone will work on it like it's his job not just hobby, work for several hours a day, every day for years because he doesn't get paid.
Another big problem is because everyone can mess with it the software often ends up a mess because there is no clear vision, no strict roadmap to follow, no hierarchy and that's been for years the problem with openGL and the reason why DX overtook it on windows. DX was much more straightforward and focused for developers.
Why did Linux took the market on smartphones (android) but it didn't on desktops even though it has been around for much longer? Because Google took it, put paid developers on it and told them exactly what to do, what features should they focus on and what the roadmap should be. They solved the problem of development focus open source usually has.
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