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I welcome it It's just impractical to have high quality software for every niche be built by the FOSS community. Even non-niche products (like, let's say email

I welcome it It's just impractical to have high quality software for every niche be built by the FOSS community. Even non-niche products (like, let's say email) leave a lot to be desired If I could pay companies for these products I would. But I don't because they don't make products for Linux because they think we only want FOSS programs Also, yes the creators probably don't condone proprietary software but who cares. They're not the market. The users of the OS are the market. And I want high quality software, free or not, source be dammed!

mattl 8y ago
There’s no reason free software can’t be paid for either. I agree that not every type of software will be built by community efforts alone, which is why many companies are contributing to free software. Out of interest, what free software would you like to see?
- gandreani 8y ago
  Oh man where do I begin? So I can't confidently say I've tried it all but when I booted up Ubuntu within the last year it was hard to find... - simple email client with good html template support and conversation threading (thunderbird was meh) - simple pdf viewer - pdf editor - an oscilliscope app that works with those usb oscilliscopes - image editor (gimp is a slow nightmare to use) - Microsoft Office suite replacement (Open/Libre Office is also a UI nightmare) - A diagram app ala draw.io (Admittedly I haven't looked too hard for this one) - Music library organizer (Also didn't look too hard) I guess now would also be a good time to mention apps that are great - Desktops shells (Gnome/KDE/Xfce) - VLC - Firefox/Chrome - Package managers - Music players (generally bearable)
justin66 8y ago
> Also, yes the creators probably don't condone proprietary software but who cares. Linus Torvalds was pretty widely quoted as saying If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. I'm pretty sure he was being sincere. The guy has praised PowerPoint, of all things. The GNU fundamentalists are a noisy minority. That's not intended as a commentary on their usefulness or the correctness of their position, it's just a statement of fact.

mattl 8y ago

There’s no reason free software can’t be paid for either. I agree that not every type of software will be built by community efforts alone, which is why many companies are contributing to free software. Out of interest, what free software would you like to see?

gandreani 8y ago
Oh man where do I begin? So I can't confidently say I've tried it all but when I booted up Ubuntu within the last year it was hard to find... - simple email client with good html template support and conversation threading (thunderbird was meh) - simple pdf viewer - pdf editor - an oscilliscope app that works with those usb oscilliscopes - image editor (gimp is a slow nightmare to use) - Microsoft Office suite replacement (Open/Libre Office is also a UI nightmare) - A diagram app ala draw.io (Admittedly I haven't looked too hard for this one) - Music library organizer (Also didn't look too hard) I guess now would also be a good time to mention apps that are great - Desktops shells (Gnome/KDE/Xfce) - VLC - Firefox/Chrome - Package managers - Music players (generally bearable)

justin66 8y ago

> Also, yes the creators probably don't condone proprietary software but who cares. Linus Torvalds was pretty widely quoted as saying If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. I'm pretty sure he was being sincere. The guy has praised PowerPoint, of all things. The GNU fundamentalists are a noisy minority. That's not intended as a commentary on their usefulness or the correctness of their position, it's just a statement of fact.