Re: Counter productive
Ant powered would work - if only we could get enough bugs in (GNU pterry)
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Design by a committee is OK, there are very few space programs entirely designed by a lone bloke in a shed
The problem was that it's requirements were created by a bunch of competing agencies, some of which later dropped out once their compromises had been implemented. (see also any European fighter program involving the French)
So you are a Russian railway worker, not a fan of special military operations, and want to report how many trains of tanks you routed and to where.
What are you supposed to do? Hang around on park benches asking people if "the eagle flies south for the winter"?, ring Moscow information and ask for the local CIA tips line? write a letter to CIA HQ USA ?
>Besides, installing Linux these days is nothing special
ThatWasTheJoke.jpeg, I've been installing Linux since SLS and the boot and root floppies and you had to write your own xorg.conf modelines and hope you didn't blow up your CRT getting phase correct
Nothing was as opaque as that list of Windows instructions
The real cost though is that every standalone office costs them the $10-100/month they can charge for Office365
Unless they can charge $$$ for every new standalone and everyone renews every coupe of years and there's no piracy - they lose money however cheap the development
Our corporate overlords at Cthullu International used on-prem Atlassian. They demanded we move off when they went cloudy - but moved us to cloudy Github ?
Wondered why we had a sudden rush to move to a cloud - when they are paranoid about having all our data in R'lyeh
It's all about the money !
>So pay me $1m a day, and I'll follow the legislation.
That's why open source is so concerned. SAP can say this , I can't say this if I add to some GPL software and you use it. The GPL says I give it to you and you can give to anyone else.
But I'm responsible for reporting any security that affect you, and anyone you gave the software to and anyone using any derived work and possibly for any flaws in any work I derived from that affect my work.