Re: For The Gamers

Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Le 12-01-2025, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> a écrit :

On 1/12/2025 8:05 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 12-01-2025, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> a écrit :

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I went into physics because I thought I would become bored with programming.

 
I can understand one can become bored with programming in some company
doing always the same stuff. But in a general way, I don't understand
how one can get bored with programming. And that's one thing DFS will
never be able to contest about the superiority of FOSS over proprietary
software.

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What superiority are you referring to?

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That's what I explained just after.
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With proprietary software, to get chalenges in programming,
you have to get hired by the company to work on it first. With FOSS,
there are so many lines of codes in so many programming languages
waiting for you to improve them that you can have fun as long as you
want.

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That's why it's called hobbyware.

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There is no incompatibility between having fun and contributing to great
things. You can choose what you want with FOSS, you have to be hired to
do the same thing in a company.

And there are many FOSS projects that are not hobbyware, and that are
professionally run:

    -   Linux kernel
    -   Linux distros Red Hat / Fedory, Debian / Ubuntu, Arch....
    -   LibreOffice
    -   Systemd
    -   Ansible
    -   Git
    -   GNU C/C++ and the whole suite of tools
    -   Clang
    -   Python
    -   . . .

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