Re: cpu-x

On 2024-05-17, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On Fri, 17 May 2024 03:12:43 +0000, RonB wrote:
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On 2024-05-15, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2024 14:17:16 +0000, RonB wrote:
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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."

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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.

 
But he does put out a good product, that's why he gets the donations.
It's called free enterprise, completely different than monopoly
capitalism.
 
Which reminds me. I need to send a donation to Linux Mint.

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You should. Over the years, he's gotten two Ethereums from me and a number
of $10 or $20 donations. I have no regrets, mostly because I imagine that
people who couldn't afford high-end computers benefited tremendously from
being able to install Linux, and do as much as their friends were doing on
their more expensive computers.

I've donated a couple times (I think two times) to Linux Mint but the last
time was about 5 years ago, I believe.

--
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality."
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine