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Dec 8, 2009 2:04 AM
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Argue long enough with a Linux advocate and they’ll eventually run out of excuses. They know things are broken, they know its not ready for the mainstream and they know it only has 1% marketshare.
As a last line of defense, they will recycle one of the original selling points, its free. It doesn’t cost you a penny (unless your time is worthless, of course). The assumption is that because its free there are no expectations to live up to.
Try offering someone a free lunch and then serve them turd sandwiches, see if they don’t complain simply because it was free.
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Single worst thing about the FOSS model: end-users have no power over developers. In a closed-source system, at least you can boycott and financially damage the producers. In FOSS, your only recourse is to either prostitute yourself to them or fork the project.
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... In FOSS, your only recourse is to either prostitute yourself to them or fork the project.
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That’s the freedom their trying give you.
should also be tagged with:
ButYoullBeFree™
I wouldn’t be surprised that the poor usability of most Linux apps is an attempt for old sysadmins to return to the glory days of the 70s and 80s, when the computer was unusable to the average person and required that you consult a UNIX wizard. It would give them a sense of worth again.
No no no no no.
“In FOSS, you can’t hear your users scream.”
Just to encourage cross-fertilisation, I’m going to beg permission to post that one back on LHB...
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