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( to be sure, i mean FOSS anything else rather than OSes. I think Windows and Solaris were just unbelievably unlucky -- or something about prestige?) Or- maybe

( to be sure, i mean FOSS anything else rather than OSes. I think Windows and Solaris were just unbelievably unlucky -- or something about prestige?) Or- maybe open source isnt really the achievement here.. after all finland is and was the borderlands of the west. Rather, Linus laid unassailable foundations for the ultimate OS and he kept it FO, like a real life Hari Seldon

cassianoleal 4y ago
Just to be clear, you're saying that with the exception of OSs, open source is always worse than a proprietary alternative? Tell me a single proprietary web server and reverse proxy out there that beats Nginx, Traefik, HAproxy, etc. What about databases? Is Oracle, or B2, measurably better than MySQL, PostgreSQL? Let's go down to a personal anecdote. The other day I was sent a DOCX with a form to fill out. I tried it on Office365's Word. Some of the form fields I couldn't change to the correct answer. I opened the same file on LibreOffice and voilà, in 10 minutes I had filled out and sent the form. Now, you talked about Linus... What about git? What proprietary SCM software is better than it? Browsers. Is Edge better than Chrome or Firefox? Was Internet Explorer? Is Safari? I could go on... Edit: s/OpenOffice/LibreOffice/
- kalimanzaro 4y ago
  aha my terrible hypothesis masquerading as an informed opinion back there. You are right, mostly-- I can' t agree about libreoffice but I can be entitled to the opinion that it is clunkier that the msoft version cant I? Here is a revamped hypothesis for your approval: FOSS is almost always better except possibly when comparing UX heavy software, and thats only because "quality of UX" is largely a subjective measure.
mistrial9 4y ago
> Hari Seldon hah - thx for this ref "The two prequels—Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation—describe Seldon's life in considerable detail. "

cassianoleal 4y ago

Just to be clear, you're saying that with the exception of OSs, open source is always worse than a proprietary alternative? Tell me a single proprietary web server and reverse proxy out there that beats Nginx, Traefik, HAproxy, etc. What about databases? Is Oracle, or B2, measurably better than MySQL, PostgreSQL? Let's go down to a personal anecdote. The other day I was sent a DOCX with a form to fill out. I tried it on Office365's Word. Some of the form fields I couldn't change to the correct answer. I opened the same file on LibreOffice and voilà, in 10 minutes I had filled out and sent the form. Now, you talked about Linus... What about git? What proprietary SCM software is better than it? Browsers. Is Edge better than Chrome or Firefox? Was Internet Explorer? Is Safari? I could go on... Edit: s/OpenOffice/LibreOffice/

kalimanzaro 4y ago
aha my terrible hypothesis masquerading as an informed opinion back there. You are right, mostly-- I can' t agree about libreoffice but I can be entitled to the opinion that it is clunkier that the msoft version cant I? Here is a revamped hypothesis for your approval: FOSS is almost always better except possibly when comparing UX heavy software, and thats only because "quality of UX" is largely a subjective measure.

mistrial9 4y ago

> Hari Seldon hah - thx for this ref "The two prequels—Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation—describe Seldon's life in considerable detail. "