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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 pi
by 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 agoWhat 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).