Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-08 , 00:32
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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
I define finished as a product that works completely as advertised
Ok, and shockingly most Open Source software fits this definition.

and has all the features, advantages, and benefits of a similar product in the market.
And most Open Source software fits this bill too.

However you're defining a "finished product" to be something that is "feature equal with an arbitrarily different product." Please don't move the goalposts here. Last I understood a "finished product" was one that was feature complete, and performed as described.

This is like bashing the GIMP for not -being- Photoshop, which is eminently unfair, considering it's capabilities versus what the average person actually needs.

MySQL (while unfortunately not as sucessful as oracle)
Not as successful by what measure? Oracle brings in tons of money, but it also has a byzantine licensing scheme and way more features than most websites will ever seriously use. On the other hand, MySQL lacks features that make Oracle and DB2 essential on the higher end.

we're talking about a consumer grade electronics here not server room software choice.
You'd be shocked at how many devices just barely perform as described, and aren't capable of doing anything more. Certainly, I'll take a little less polish if it means I don't have to deal with the vendor telling me (via encryption and security policies) what I can and can't do with my property.

EDIT: More blather from PradaBrada follows.

Originally Posted by PradaBrada View Post
There isn't much to take advantage of when I can get the same somewhere else for a bit more money and alot less hassle. Its the same reason I would purchase a car instead of collecting junk from the scrapheap and trying to make one myself.
And yet there are always people building custom cars and restoring old ones found at the scrapheap. Do you normally insult them as well?

I'm merely sharing what I have learned from experience and observation of both experience and statistics. In the real world consumers use predominantly Windows and OSX.
Use of OS X is a reaction to Windows. Windows is a result of their monopoly, really, and familiarity.

Medicine student, the psychiatry lecture on the syndrome which my professor gave was quite fascinating.
So essentially you are doing to the field of computing what you claim people do to medicine with Wikipedia. Please stop. It's what you'd want us to do, right?

They get paid to work until someone else completes their work for free!
What?

If they are working toward getting money for what they develop and therefor gain more ground in the market, they are no better than the big bad closed corporations, only smaller and envious of the other teams' success.
What nonsense is this? I hope you're better at medicine than looking at how the computing field works, or you might kill someone. How is someone making money writing open source software being no better than the "big bad closed corporations?"
Last edited by wmarone; 2010-06-08 at 00:42.
 

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