Remember kids, Free software = NO MORE JERBS.
RMS is TAKING UR JERBS!!!!!1oneone
The Winbred stages of FOSS FUD:
The “irrelevence” stage (mostly in the 90s when FOSS was somewhat obsecure).
FOSS is stupid and irrelevent. Who would use something made by a bunch of amateurs? This idea is never going to get past the neckbeard’s basements.
Google, Red Hat, Oracle, the US Government, Apple, Microsoft (ask Administrator, he’ll be glad to explain), why WON’T YOU LISTEN!! STOP PRODUCING FOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF GOOGLE WHY DID YOU OPEN SORES ANDROID??? GAH!
The “make up desperate economic bullshit phase” (early-mid 2000s).
But FOSS has higher TCOs! Don’t you know??? Here are some studies. It’s free but costs more. WHY WON’T ANYONE LISTEN TO ME!!!!!! STOP USING FOSS, IT’S MORE EXPENSIVE!!
Finally, we are in the era of “TheyTakingUrJerbs” (mid 2000s to present) and “SueSueSueSue” (past year or so).
FOSS is JERB-KILLING! Without the properitary software, how is anyone gonna get paid? Isn’t that the point of the software industry?
FOSS it steals OUR super valuable IP. LINUX WAS MY IDEA ALL ALONG, YOU NECKBEARD SCUMS. And we have a ShittySoftwarePatentOnObviousPositioningOfIcons™ to prove it.
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That’s right. Nobody buys the TCO argument anymore. So the FUD of the day is to fall back to the BROKEN WINDOW FALLACY to explain away FOSS as JOB KILLING.
Here I thought the purpose of the software industry was to, um… write software? It’s like the first word in “software industry”. Jobs are nice and all, but only when are used in the process of producing software as efficently as possible. And if that means removing people from the process, so be it.
When has the software industry become a jobs program? Oh wait, that question almost answers itself.
Here is a great example of that:
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At one of our dinners, Milton recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”
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Best analogy ever. Properitary software is the equivalent of a jobs program that digs canals with spoons.
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Hate to break it to you, but proprietary software is one step ahead of open source, everytime. VLC still doesn’t have Bluray support (or even multithread support), XBMC+MediaPortal still doesn’t play TV properly, there is still no decent alternative to Nero Express (at least for Windows) etc.
Basically, FOSS has replaced freeware. Everything that was freeware back in the 90s (Media Players, codecs, browers, crap video and image editors etc) is FOSS now. But software that was proprietary back then (video editors that don’t suck, image editors that don’t suck, word processors that don’t suck) is still proprietary.
In fact, if you ask me the gap between freeware/free software is widening! When is VLC getting 2D to 3D conversion again? PowerDVD has it already.
Kurkosdr,
I’m sorry you guys can’t have it both ways.
Either FOSS is killing them jerbs (lol), or FOSS is irrelevent (lol). Pick one and stop flip floping!
Well, it isn’t killing my jerb, and it’s about as irrelevant to me as it could possibly be.
I pick both,Adam.
I see you’re adding false dichotomies to your armoury of failed rhetorical tropes.
“Basically, FOSS has replaced freeware.”
No, it hasn’t, best free apps tend not to be FOSS, but even when they are, it’s just the original author (or team), nobody else ever does anything.
And by the way, VLC is just plain bad; MPC-HC (one of the few good FOSS apps) blows it out of the water.
Needs… what you wrote is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve seen all year. What you wrote does not even have the semblance of logic present. In fact, it is probably the golden example of Insane Troll Logic as defined by TVTropes.org ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsaneTrollLogic )
Excuse me… I shouldn’t misattribute this feat… Adam, what you wrote is possibly the stupidest thing written all year. The only semblance of logic in the post is Insane Troll Logic.
I’ll take that as a complement coming from you.
This entry reminds me of this:
http://www.timecube.com/
Adam’s (and Stallman’s) whole crusade reminds me of http://www.universe-people.com/english/img_4000/obr4043.jpg
Mark my words – Adam has been putting this together for the whole week or so he was absent.
Jebus, Adam, stay off the glue man and get yourself a real hippie drug. Maybe, just very maybe, it might lead to a beneficial reorganization of your braincells (assuming there are any more than needed to keep your vegetative nervous system and motor system running).
Can someone please put this prick out of our misery?
PS: Spelling – it makes you look less dumb.
“And by the way, VLC is just plain bad; MPC-HC (one of the few good FOSS apps) blows it out of the water.”
Did you just call an app that only works on Windows XP/Vista/7 free?
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