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It's also simply not representative of what's being discussed. Support for FOSS is a many billion dollar industry, and describing it as happening in dorm rooms
by monocasa 5y ago
It's also simply not representative of what's being discussed. Support for FOSS is a many billion dollar industry, and describing it as happening in dorm rooms is absurd.
- kube-system 5y agoI understand that. The statement was intentionally an example of an outlier, not making a generalization as you accuse. There is, in fact, at least one person in a dorm room writing FOSS. (I've been one, myself) And there's at least one person in an accounting office who does not write software. These are examples of two individual people who have different needs. This is not a generalization of any industry as a whole.
- monocasa 5y agoBringing up examples and then hiding behind 'well I didn't mean for them to be illustrative' is pretty lame.
- kube-system 5y agoI didn't ever mean anything else. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- monocasa 5y agoYou haven't given a stronger plausible interpretation than spreading FUD. Your only defense so far is that it was a non-representative fact bordering on a non-sequitur.