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>depleting the community of improvements to the work they have made freely available under good faith. You pretend those improvements would happen anyway. In R
by superuser2 11y ago
>depleting the community of improvements to the work they have made freely available under good faith.
You pretend those improvements would happen anyway. In RMS's world, proprietary software is not a business. The only way those improvements get created are
1) People individually fix their own problems and support their own use cases. Then boring, unsexy problems that no one is passionate about don't get solved. See: Linux desktop.
2) Businesses perform the least amount of development they can as a cost center; their actual business is consulting.
3) Some wealthy, benevolent patron lights money on fire so that the engineers making that software can keep warm.
- dllthomas 11y agoListing "Linux Desktop" as a problem unsolved because of a lack of sex appeal is bizarre. It has long seemed to be treated as "sexier" than it (to my mind) has deserved, and a tremendous amount of work has gone into a plethora of projects in this area. Moreover, in my experience it has always been basically solved (handwringing articles notwithstanding). I wouldn't be surprised if a part of that has been my needs being unusual, though.