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This seems to be tone deaf fluffy theory in the face of "well, I can't afford to eat but at least some guy online says it's fine wine" Printer driver is a nice
by refulgentis 3y ago
This seems to be tone deaf fluffy theory in the face of "well, I can't afford to eat but at least some guy online says it's fine wine"
Printer driver is a nice motivating story but in practice its a lotta work for no benefit
- fsckboy 3y agothe entire web grew up on and still runs on open source, and everything lamented today as "wrong" with the web is proprietary. there is no fluffy theory, i have no idea what you are talking about. you're just not grateful for what you have, you're (analogy) like a teenager who assumes you're entitled to everything your parents provide... wait till you have kids of your own and you realize your parents had no fluffy illusions
- CRConrad 3y ago> Printer driver is a nice motivating story but in practice its a lotta work for no benefit Printer driver is what the Free Software movement, and therefore its bastard son the Open Source movement, comes from. But, sure, you want to call that "no benefit", you do you, man...
- refulgentis 3y agoStrawman. We're discussing an article about someone whose job (was) open source. I never said open source has "no benefit". I specifically linked it to the specific article we are specifically discussing and how the specifics ruled out similarities to altering your printer driver.