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And here it is again: https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/ "It's the world's tiniest open-source violin." As much as I disagree with most of RMS's poli
by duncan_bayne 9y ago
And here it is again: https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
"It's the world's tiniest open-source violin."
As much as I disagree with most of RMS's politics, the man has been proved right time and time again with respect to the dangers of building on proprietary software.
This is just the latest in a long, long line of outrages.
When will we as a development community quit this weird Stockholm-syndrome-like relationship with proprietary systems vendors?
Build on NVidia, build on iOS, build on OSX, build on Windows, that's fine. It's your call. But don't act surprised when you discover the real nature of the extant power relationship.
- pjmlp 9y ago> When will we as a development community quit this weird Stockholm-syndrome-like relationship with proprietary systems vendors? When most companies stop treating open source as a way to decrease their development costs, or as a legal way of doing piracy. I was big into open source for a decade, but it hardly payed most bills. Only software that requires consulting, training, or can be hidden behind a server wall is profitable as open source. And since the supermarket lady and my landlord don't take pull requests, I build for systems vendors.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoI think you may have missed my point (which in turn implies I didn't explain it well ;) ). What I meant was: if you're building a system for your own use (including things like ML platforms and SaaS sites) why pick a target platform that is known hostile?