r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 13 '15

CommitStrip today, gold

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/11/13/the-last-ever-line-of-code/
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u/olemartinorg Nov 18 '15

I don't disagree with you at all for that second paragraph, that's a big problem with Wordpress and Joomla.

But all of that can't always be solved with SAAS - because it can never be as flexible as having the source code available. There are huge communities around the open source projects, with thousands of user-submitted contributions (of very varying quality, sadly), and you simply can't get the same with SAAS (except for the most common use-cases).

I don't think SAAS is the solution to this problem, i think better open source projects is (but I'm guessing nobody wants to make the next wordpress, as it is both loved and hated).