Yah, free software is all fine and dandy but it is nowhere without rich corporations supporting it.
I agree that open source software can be amazing and there are many surprisingly great projects out there.
That is because people who develop free software just aim to make a program that can be the best it can be. Why? Because it's fun :)
(Doing it as a career, I imagine, is an excellent way to ruin a great pastime).
It is, from my seeing, usually the users who are zealots. Much of the time, that's because they don't get it; they have been given something for free, they should be thankful for it and they should move on instead of trying to get people to build more stuff for them for free. They don't understand that the free stuff still costs money to make and distribute, and that one cannot make a living off of it.
I have written many a rant on people who don't like proprietary drivers in Linux (which is absurd, because by their logic even the hardware with open source drivers is dangerous! Who knows what that circuitry is doing?!), and I am glad Linus has the same opinion as me...
I agree that open source software can be amazing and there are many surprisingly great projects out there.
That is because people who develop free software just aim to make a program that can be the best it can be. Why? Because it's fun :)
(Doing it as a career, I imagine, is an excellent way to ruin a great pastime).
It is, from my seeing, usually the users who are zealots. Much of the time, that's because they don't get it; they have been given something for free, they should be thankful for it and they should move on instead of trying to get people to build more stuff for them for free. They don't understand that the free stuff still costs money to make and distribute, and that one cannot make a living off of it.
I have written many a rant on people who don't like proprietary drivers in Linux (which is absurd, because by their logic even the hardware with open source drivers is dangerous! Who knows what that circuitry is doing?!), and I am glad Linus has the same opinion as me...