Re: The Golly! of Python

On 2024-05-18, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On Fri, 17 May 2024 18:50:21 -0400, DFS wrote:
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On 5/17/2024 5:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 12 May 2024 13:39:22 -0400, DFS wrote:
 

The GuhNoo world desperately needs adult supervision.
MS-haters are free to do what they want, but the resulting 1000+
distros - the large majority of which are barely used - has been a
gigantic waste of time and effort.

 
How many billions do you think all those distros have cost to produce?
 
Who do you think should be the ones to provide the “adult supervision”?

 
The Authority.
 
 

Should it be Microsoft or Apple to go around buying all these distros
and shutting them down? How much would that cost?

 
Buy them?  They're worthless.  And they're dead already.  Nobody pays or
donates, and nobody uses them.  If the devs had any shame they would've
removed them from the market a long time ago.

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Linux Mint gets a good chunk of donations in addition to their
sponsorships. The fact that they don't get more is actually problem:
losing the option of installing Linux will give way too much power to
Microsoft, Apple and Google to control where technology and by extension
the web is going. Look at what they did to the web once they got their
hands on it. Pop-ups, ads, spam and censorship. If you don't think
Microsoft, Apple and Google would put an end to your freedom of speech if
they got more power over technology, you're deluding yourself. Look at
what both Apple and Google have _already_ done in blacklisting apps from
their stores for daring to be conservative and believing in the First
Amendment of the Constitution.

If Clement would sell out to Microsoft (no indication he would ever do so),
someone could fork the project the next day, name it "Linux Thyme" and
nothing would change except the name. That's the beauty of Open Source.

DuFuS will never understand that.

What would stop new ones from appearing?

 
Devs having the personal dignity and self-control to not put out
derivative crapola.
 
 

For instance, despite contributions to LibreOffice from over 1000
people, the Base database component has been extremely substandard and
unchanged for years ...

 
Really??

 
Yes, really.

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How dare a free product that relies on donations not be on par with the
corporate suite for which hundreds of paid programers develop!
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