#UnpopularOpinion I am torn between what’s more destructive to progress.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:wrote last edited by [email protected]
#UnpopularOpinion I am torn (since many years) between what’s more destructive to progress: Monopolies created by copyright and patents in a supposedly free market or the (mostly ego-driven) infighting in the #OpenSource #FreeSoftware world. Both stifle innovation and progress, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) and experience of 30+ years in fighting both. The latter seemed to me to be more easy to solve for many years, but I’m not so sure anymore.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by [email protected]
(There’s the reason for my „no more heroes“ painted by Batman’s sidekick Robin profile masthead picture that is here and everywhere since many years, should you have wondered
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Uckermark MacGyver :nonazi:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer for the OS/FS part it would be at least possible for a willing and capable party to fork and do better. In the corporate world the is a whole bunch of lawyers between those and a solution...
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Uckermark MacGyver :nonazi: last edited by [email protected]
@maxheadroom 20+ years of Gnome v KDE and which of the 400+ Linux distributions newbies should install tell me a more complicated story
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Raffzahnreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer It is, cause it can be ignored. Freedom of ideas means that there's always room for someone else to pick up the flag and advance. Not possible when ideas get monolpolized.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Raffzahn last edited by
@Raffzahn so why are we still fighting (IMHO) useless fights over systemd v rc.d, which distribution to use, vi v emacs when all it does is drive people away?
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Raffzahnreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer because we are people!
As so often most of those fights are not done by people who advance any product but more or less (usually less) involved fanbois.
Just take Windows vs. Mac. None of the people advocating one over the other has any influence in either making. Both work quite fine, still the fighting doesn't stop.
It will never stop. We are human and we all try to advance what we see as desirable. It's evolutionary. Evolution is mindless. Neither beautiful nor ugly. It just is - and we're part of it.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Raffzahn last edited by [email protected]
@Raffzahn Windows v Mac is a Pareto distribution fight. Linux isn’t even part of it, when we are honest. And the less than 2% that want to try Linux are met with infighting and hostility about how to even start. I went to so many LUG (Linux User Group) meetings where newbies switched off when the „elders“ drifted off into obscure discussions when they asked the simple question „here’s my laptop. What should I install?“
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by [email protected]
I have Ajax’s explanation always at the top of my bookmarks since many years for reasons. He wrote it in 2008. It’s timeless. IMHO. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html