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> Free software has an insurmountable design, development, and discovery problem. Someone in the 80s probably wrote that free software has an insurmountable to
by jancsika 5y ago
> Free software has an insurmountable design, development, and discovery problem.
Someone in the 80s probably wrote that free software has an insurmountable tooling, compiler, and operating system problem.
The surmountable hurdle is for key free software developers to learn enough about design and discovery to honor and encourage the very few people who currently show up to do that work. If they made the experts feel like rock stars I'm sure more would turn up to do work for free.
I offer as evidence the number of free software devs who work on free software tooling, compilers, and operating systems as evidence of this.
- analognoise 5y agoI think the obvious lack of uptake of the free software for applications makes GP right.
- qaq 5y agoWell as things stand now they are in most cases very well compensated employees of major companies who are working on these projects as part of their job.