After seeing the great Rust security camera software project on the front page today, I started thinking about other software with no open-source alternatives. That is, are there still many industries (or just individual tasks even) that are necessarily locked into proprietary products because of complexity/cost of development, lack of interest outside of a niche of industry, or whatever other reason.
Would love to hear any anecdotes about peculiar instances of this or any other examples that are not obvious to the average dev!
Would love to hear any anecdotes about peculiar instances of this or any other examples that are not obvious to the average dev!