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Why continue using that free software, given the issues, if it doesn't fit your definition of valuable free software?
by jcusch 5y ago
Why continue using that free software, given the issues, if it doesn't fit your definition of valuable free software?
- JPLeRouzic 5y agoI am not complaining, I am answering to "Free software as the freedom to ...study, change and improve the software." This is just not true for most modern open source software.
- jcusch 5y agoSorry, I didn't mean to imply you were complaining. I was just curious where else you feel the value lies in that software, if freedom isn't it?
- JPLeRouzic 5y agoMaybe be it's just that I have advocated for open source at my company for a long time. I remember playing with and trying to improve smallC [0] in the 1980' when there was no GCC. Yet, at the same time, TurboC from Borland was an incredible product. I would be happy to have today a similar editor for Java and PHP. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C