Sujet : Re: cpu-x
De : andrzej (at) *nospam* matu.ch (Andrzej Matuch)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 14. May 2024, 17:30:58
Autres entêtes
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On Tue, 14 May 2024 11:05:14 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
On Tue, 14 May 2024 08:30:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects
royalties:
On 14 May 2024 00:11:11 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure
that their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the
support.
Uh, projects with a reputation for breakage will stop being used at
all.
Clearly you have never used the stuff.
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No, actually, you are depending crucially on it right now, without
realizing it. Without Open Source, there would be no Internet.
One thing people don't seem to understand is that most programmers,
especially "open-source" programmers, have pride! They don't want to
be ridiculed for writing garbage. They want to please their uses and
respond quickly to issue reports. Many of them are even OCD about
their code.
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Only until they realize that they've made no money from it whatsoever.
Whether you want to admit it or not, those programmers who were most
insistent about supporting open-source eventually move on to greener
pastures, and produce quality code in proprietary form.
That can happen, of course. A guy's got to eat!
I've gone in the opposite direction. Now that I'm not tied to a job, I
have plenty more time to indulge my OCD (obsessive coding disorder).
That's actually how most of open-source works. People work on things in
their spare time, but do something else during the day. Considering the
quality of Linux's code, especially when running on lower-end hardware,
this is commendable. It's quite possible that the people behind the code
take pride in what they release and that they are very active in fixing
bugs, but I wouldn't expect them to be. After all, they're producing
something at no charge for people who probably won't even donate.
That said, I'm getting to a point where I want to not only use the product
and donate to it. Gnome, in particular, seems to be dying from a lack of
funding. While I am not comfortable saying that Gnome is better than
Windows or Mac OS, it definitely deserves to be supported.