> has admittedly some issues producing consumer facing products
Not just them. Open source community has issues with complex software that needs substantial amount of R&D, UI/UX design, manual QA, hardware design, or pretty much everything else that's not coding.
Multimedia codecs aren't user facing, yet only PNG was invented as open source, the rest of the wide spread ones (gif, jpeg, MP3, MPEG2, h264, h265, AAC, etc) - were made by companies. Open source developers made their Vorbis, Theora and others, were not good enough.
Not just them. Open source community has issues with complex software that needs substantial amount of R&D, UI/UX design, manual QA, hardware design, or pretty much everything else that's not coding.
Multimedia codecs aren't user facing, yet only PNG was invented as open source, the rest of the wide spread ones (gif, jpeg, MP3, MPEG2, h264, h265, AAC, etc) - were made by companies. Open source developers made their Vorbis, Theora and others, were not good enough.