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the new calculator app is open source, you can see what's making it so slow if you want, and contribute fixes if you have the skills to do the fixing. MIT lice
by naikrovek 3y ago
the new calculator app is open source, you can see what's making it so slow if you want, and contribute fixes if you have the skills to do the fixing.
MIT license.
https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/ https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/
- codetrotter 3y agoWhy would anyone want to do free work for Microsoft?
- dingnuts 3y agoThis is the correct response. Telling community members that they can fix bugs in libre, community-supported software is one thing. Telling /users/ who are NOT community members to make changes to some corporation's application that happens to have source available, in their free time, and then donate that labor to some billion dollar corporation? fuck THAT. Fix it your own damn self, Microsoft. I have better shit to do.
- dagaci 3y agoBecause it makes the things they use better mostly, they are => https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/graphs/contributors https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/graphs/contributors
- pjmlp 3y agoThey shouldn't, other than provides a good entry on the CV, that is all.
- rappatic 3y agoThis isn't justification for an app being bad. A company shouldn't release a broken and slow app on an OS I pay for and you can't make it seem like that's okay simply because Microsoft took ten minutes to put the code on Github. At that rate, why put effort into improving apps at all if users will do free work for you?
- naikrovek 3y agoso make it less bad, or stop complaining. if you're complaining without a plan of action to address the complaint, you are speaking for attention alone. fork it and fix it, then use that version. open your fork so you can help others. you other commenters can continue to complain and whine endlessly or you can put your money where your mouth is and actually do something. what's it gonna be?
- iggldiggl 3y agoUnfortunately some issues have been declared as "by design". E.g. due to a rigid interpretation of some accessibility guideline, the fact that clicking on the history or trigonometry menus moves the input focus there, so Numpad Enter suddenly starts re-opening that menu instead of pressing '=' is apparently perfectly intended and definitively not a bug.
- naikrovek 3y agothen work on a copy. it's MIT-licensed so you don't have to give your work to Microsoft.
- tpush 3y agoMicrosoft requires contributors to sign a CLA giving Microsoft effective ownership over your contributions. You should never be working for a for-profit organization without compensation.
- eddythompson80 3y agoNot arguing for contributing to Microsoft’s repos, but most open source projects under most well respected foundations do the same. There is a big argument for or against CLAs but it’s not like it’s just them.
- tpush 3y agoYes, lots of organizations want free labor. That has no bearing on whether its ethical. There's a somewhat decent argument to be made for non-profit organizations, but there's none for for-profit orgs like Microsoft.
- naikrovek 3y agosuccessfully reach out to all contributors to the Linux kernel and then tell me CLAs are bad for a corporation. you open source people, man. you give all developers a horrible reputation. put up or shut up, lol
- tpush 3y agoThat copyright of the Linux kernel is being shared by all is contributors is essential in making it an actual public good. I have no idea what you want to express with your second paragraph, though.
- eddythompson80 3y agoThere is a Linux BDFL that everyone refers to for any disputes. He can't be there forever unfortunately. Who knows how Linux will be 10 or 20 years without him.