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That's fine for a competent developer with a lot of time on their hands, but do you consider this to be a practical approach for the average Linux user?

• hackits 9y ago
  Average users don't use Linux. Considering that you're getting thousands of man months for free by using the kernel and open source tools I would imagine you pitching in to help with a little bit of your time.
  • nicky0 9y ago
    What about sysadmins, web developers... ? This is what I mean by average Linux user. These people aren't coding native apps all day. The class of people qualified to contribute to open source Linux utilities is a subset of Linux users.
  • nkkollaw 9y ago
    > Average users don't use Linux You'd be surprised. My sister uses Ubuntu (no idea how she got the idea), and she's in a totally different field. > Considering that you're getting thousands of man months for free by using the kernel and open source tools I would imagine you pitching in to help with a little bit of your time. People release open source projects for different reasons. I don't think it should be required physically or ethically to have to pitch in to help, even if one was capable of. Fixing other people's code in a disk partitioner or text editor is not what I'm passionate about nor what I want to spend time on. Then, I'd rather pay (as I do) for Sublime Text and start working on things that I care about already (on macOS—which I definitely pay for).