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Why does it have to be an either/or? Of course Stallman and a large group of volunteers can't compete with giant corporations. But their contributions are very
by city41 5y ago
Why does it have to be an either/or? Of course Stallman and a large group of volunteers can't compete with giant corporations. But their contributions are very valuable and needed.
It also turns out that few hundred billion dollars of paid software engineering was greatly subsidized by volunteer open source work. Every Android phone in the world uses an open source kernel as one very obvious example.
I for one am very grateful for Stallman and everyone else. I use Linux for everything. Works great, meets all of my needs with zero complaints. If it wasn't for them, I'd have no choice but to use Windows or MacOS.
- sneak 5y ago> Of course Stallman and a large group of volunteers can't compete with giant corporations. If they (or their ideology) can't, then nothing else they say has any relevance. > But their contributions are very valuable and needed. How so? Decades of their braying has not solved the problem; indeed things have gotten much worse.