Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-08 , 01:14
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Originally Posted by PradaBrada View Post
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.
Oh right, so you're playing the die-hard capitalist who sees freedom as the enemy.

Except for the fact that I actually took several years of Computer Science classes
Which qualifies you to comment on the workings of an industry that is largely opaque to you.

No work = no paycheck
Well that's a problem everyone faces, no?

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.
Except no one's doing that. You're stuffing words in other people's mouths.

Originally Posted by ZShakespeare View Post
It's not even an assertion.
Yes it is. You're saying "open source is crap" and I want you to point out why, and how closed source software is better. That might be hard, though, seeing as how closed source software is completely opaque from a developmental point of view.

it's history.
Whose history? Microsoft's?

painted in a cute little story to make the big business world more easy to understand for the people who apparently don't.
Oh right, because only BIG BUSINESS can do things properly. Except when they fail miserably, but we just brush that under the carpet (or push the losses on to the public, right?)