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> Open Source. I actually think this is the opposite. Open source users tend to be more informed and thus more understanding to software issues. They post bug
by bnegreve 14y ago
> Open Source.
I actually think this is the opposite. Open source users tend to be more informed and thus more understanding to software issues. They post bug reports and even talk to devs when required.
Someone who bought a piece of software will complain until it works as expected.
- jiggy2011 14y agoDepends on the software, I know plenty of non techy people who use firefox and openoffice and I would bet that the majority of them have no idea at all that the source code is available online. They just think of it as "free beer" which is fine because they are not devs so having the code would be of limited use to them. If open source software crashes on them they would just swear at it in the same way they would proprietary software, it wouldn't occur to them to take a stack trace and file a bug report (I guess this is why firefox offers to do this automatically).