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A client once gave me a lecture about how FOSS couldn't possibly produce software with the quality of commercial and was really just a parasitic element on soft
by noonespecial 11y ago
A client once gave me a lecture about how FOSS couldn't possibly produce software with the quality of commercial and was really just a parasitic element on software development.
He pulled up a video talk by some "expert" on the topic.
Oh yes, he used VLC.
Thanks for the classic "umm.. you know..." moment VLC project.
- beachstartup 11y agothe entire linux operating system wasn't enough for him, huh?
- noonespecial 11y agoFor this guy, no. He knew nearly nothing at all about linux. His was a windows shop through and through. It was much more powerful to call out a program he knew and used than the nebulous "linux" that he had never seen in action and believed to just be an inferior rip-off of windows 2003 server.
- naasking 11y ago> FOSS [...] was really just a parasitic element on software development. That's a weird claim. It's not like FOSS is taking tax money or forcing people to pay for something they don't use. How else could it possibly be parasitic?
- noonespecial 11y agoIt was a long convoluted argument. It went something like, "if all of those communists hadn't just made all that stuff for free then lots more people would have jobs building it". Also it all violated patents and was inherently inferior (but by its dastardly and audacious existence, prevented the better commercial stuff from being made). As well as costing the jobs. ??? It was about as coherent as cooked spaghetti.
- kowdermeister 11y ago> FOSS couldn't possibly produce software with the quality of commercial Sometimes it's quite true, sometimes it's not, while I dislike extremist opinions probably his problems weren't solved by FOSS :) It depends on the task you want to solve.