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With commercial software, you have the same thing that you have with any commercial product: accountability. The product creator has an obligation to you, the buyer. With open source, you may consider yourself lucky if you get a response like this. Or like this, if less lucky. Quote:
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Wait... are we still arguing FOSS vs. Closed Source?
There's crap found in both camps. Fart apps? Some are open source. Some are not. Worthless attempts at being an office app? Yep, both camps havre those too. Face it, even with a governing body, some crap slips past every now and then. But luckily enough, we have choices. And if it's open source, we can help those folks to make a better app. If it's closed and in a ecosystem that allows for comments - do so angrily yet informative enough that it's seen by a few people that might echo those sentiments before it's taken down. Or something like that. I just know that I like having choices more than anything else. |
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I'm not talking about fartapps here, I mean the serious software that is used more and more to build up the world. Skilled people contribute all the time to worthy projects. Quote:
As it happens, I work on FOSS in a commercial company. In reality I work exclusively on open source software and have been doing that for several years now. The company makes profit, so I have heard and I suppose it is true as they afford to pay me several thousand euros every month :eek: As for FOSS small-hobbyist-apps that I use, I make it a habit of donating to the devs for the applications I use. And I donate more than the silly few dollars usually asked for in applicaton stores. (But I also compile the sources myself, as a case in point; I could not use closed-source applications even if I wanted... it is a matter of principle.) |
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Anyone care to explain to me whether Spideroak and Backblaze have a difference? :rolleyes: |
Re: Changes with Google Drive
I like these changes :)
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