Sujet : Re: cpu-x
De : andrzej (at) *nospam* matu.ch (Andrzej Matuch)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 15. May 2024, 20:39:19
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 14:17:16 +0000, RonB wrote:
On 2024-05-14, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
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.
I call BS on that claim. Clément Lefèbvre (for one) has been putting out
Linux Mint for over 18 years now. It keeps getting better and Clément
shows no sign of "moving on."
You can get a great idea of how much money the man makes from releasing
Linux Mint. He gets paid for his work. It's all in donation form, but he
makes a comfortable income providing us with a simple Linux distribution.
If nobody gave him any money, I doubt that he would still be around.