Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
IMHO &quot;open&quot; systems that are too complex are not actually open.<p>What is closed source anyway? It just means you get binaries. Binaries are not actually obfuscated. You can disassemble them, and there&#x27;s even some decompilers on the market that will create functionally equivalent C code with auto-generated function and variable names. Nothing stops you from decompiling and reading a closed-source binary... except the complexity and difficulty of understanding it.<p>Open source systems where the source and installation&#x2F;admin procedure are absurdly complicated are not actually open... they&#x27;re just using a different obfuscation technique. If it takes days to install or the source is write-only code, it&#x27;s no different from closed source software.