It&#x27;s because I&#x27;ve been around for a while.<p>The idea, and failed promise, of FOSS wasn&#x27;t that there will be many &quot;great FOSS projects around&quot;, it was that it will win the desktop (and not just as some FOSS released by some corporate behemoth, but by community -bazaar- FOSS projects).<p>That, it never did.<p>And in fact, in all those years, they&#x27;ve failed to even better Photoshop (Gimp is still far behind), MS Office (Open&#x2F;Libre Office and co), etc and other such basics. Heck, compare GTK&#x2F;Gnome&#x27;s latest APIs to something like Cocoa (and even more so with Swift) and weep.<p>And then SaaS used server-side FOSS to kill the free part behind the service providers server farms. They can use all the FOSS goodies they like, and nobody gets to see their code or change it.