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Only relevant sentence: "Salaries are a good motivation." I feel sorry for the schlubs who have to write these corporate blogs. Also, everyone here over 40 wo
by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Only relevant sentence: "Salaries are a good motivation."
I feel sorry for the schlubs who have to write these corporate blogs.
Also, everyone here over 40 would prefer going back in time to closed-source.
Yes, M$ would still reign supreme, but at least the buck you made was an
honest quid pro quo, and not accessory to the surveillance economy.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> Also, everyone here over 40 would prefer going back in time to closed-source. Yes, M$ would still reign supreme, but at least the buck you made was an honest quid pro quo, and not accessory to the surveillance economy. That's a very strong claim. MS sucked without FOSS competition, and is quite happy to drive the surveillance economy.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoClassic ignoratio elenchi triggered by emotional response to M$.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoYour claim was that > at least the buck you made was an honest quid pro quo, and not accessory to the surveillance economy. and I contend that MS would happily run the surveillance economy just as much while leaving everything else worse off. Not ignoratio elenchi at all.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoIt's the 1990s during the New York Yankees heyday. Performance enhancing drugs now enable lesser teams to end their dynasty. My point was that I was a happier baseball fan before the steroid era, even if that meant the hated Yankees would remain dominant. That the Yankees would also have cheated if they'd caught on fast enough is irrelevant.
- somenewaccount1 5y agoI'm 42 and would rather not go back to closed source.
- leephillips 5y agoPerhaps this is irony that's too subtle for me. But I’m way over 40 and the open source movement made everything that I enjoy about computing possible.
- DantesKite 5y agoWorking for money certainly beats working for free.