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But isn't that a bit like sitting on someone else's chair? You can't control things you don't own.
by gkya 9y ago
But isn't that a bit like sitting on someone else's chair? You can't control things you don't own.
- fasquoika 9y agoThis seems like the kind of question liable to open a whole can of worms about free software and what it means to "own" a program
- gkya 9y agoI don't think so, as this comment won't be seen all that much; but I'd say that that's a can of worms that we should open.
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- derefr 9y agoYeah, I'd compare that more to living in a hotel, and coming into your room every day to find that the hotel has replaced the chairs. The hotel, here, is the web service, or your OS's package manager If you have a problem with constantly changing chairs, you're free to find a new hotel that doesn't do that—probably one with "LTS" in the name.
- gkya 9y agoI was referring to individual software packages, an entire distro is a bit of a different beast. Going with the same chair analogy, well, you'd mostly care about the chair in your room, no? The one that you use the most. That's similar to what I do with Ubuntu (and any other OS): it takes care of all the programs except Emacs which I compile myself following master, Firefox Developer Edition which I'll use until 57 comes out, and my scripts and utilities that I've written. It's impossible to micro-manage every bit of software I directly or indirectly use, but it's a nice trade off to ensure the most important bits myself and trust the rest to the distro maintainers.