Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
And yet there are always people building custom cars and restoring old ones found at the scrapheap. Do you normally insult them as well?
As a matter of fact, yes, I do, especially if they are doing so solely to not pay for a real car and so leave a chip in the economy.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Use of OS X is a reaction to Windows. Windows is a result of their monopoly, really, and familiarity.
So what? Cry wolf moar.

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
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?
Except for the fact that I actually took several years of Computer Science classes

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
What?
No work = no paycheck

Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
What idiotic 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?"
They are both making software to make money. That is all that matters. Hating on closed corporations is simply hating on the competition for naive reasons, which is childish at best.

Originally Posted by Bourdain View Post
Professor Byagam Gokulden is indeed an amazing luminary. hpek
He's simply the best