Originally Posted by olighak (Post 386395)

Weren´t you talking about FOSS programmers being the equivalent of volunteers earlier in this thread? Some volunteers are obsessed with what they volunteers and are better than many professionals in the trade, but instead lack the time to do the volunteering. I´m better as a mechanic than some of the one´s I´ve taken my old Volvo´s to, but that still doesn´t mean I want to open up a Reparation and Restoration shop on the side, I just can´t do it proper justice as something else takes priority.

With FOSS I am just as screwed, as with commercial apps, if the original programmer stops developing it, no one else picks it up and I either don´t have the time or can´t program. Am I any better off with the amateur in that case than the commercial programmer?

Originally Posted by jutl (Post 386401)

FOSS is often misperceived to be centred around amateur programmers. The reality is that - just like closed source software - some is developed by amateurs and some by professionals. The idea that FOSS is not something engaged in by the 'big boys' is increasingly quaint, and doesn't survive any serious investigation of the current software market.

Originally Posted by olighak (Post 386414)

But I don´t see FOSS amateurs or hardware vendor people being better suited.

Originally Posted by olighak (Post 386395)

I see I´ve hit a sore spot.

Much of the OSS seems centered around amateur programmers, people that are not paid for creating applications but paid for perhaps at best paid for something else such as creating hardware, and that hardware just happens to need some firmware. Many of them are programmers during evenings and weekends, and sometimes that can´t compete with the open.

Well Apple does not depend on Quicktime for its livelyhood does it? I don´t remember being charged for downloading and installing it. How much of Apple´s revenue is generated by Quicktime?



Freedom ok. Well there´s also freedom in being able to install useful commercial apps, as long as I can choose which one I install, right?

If the company is just making software to dump on the hardware, which is their primary business, then obviously making software is not priority number 1. In business most people can only count up to priority 1 so you can guess which side is going to suffer. The software side.

I can get paid support from multiple companies for a lot of commercial software, in case of enterprise systems. In smaller software I´ve often emailed the code´s programmers themselves with suggestions, some which make it into the release and some which don´t. But they then rely on the software for their paycheck and hence are more prone to listen to suggestions.

Weren´t you talking about FOSS programmers being the equivalent of volunteers earlier in this thread? Some volunteers are obsessed with what they volunteers and are better than many professionals in the trade, but instead lack the time to do the volunteering. I´m better as a mechanic than some of the one´s I´ve taken my old Volvo´s to, but that still doesn´t mean I want to open up a Reparation and Restoration shop on the side, I just can´t do it proper justice as something else takes priority.

With FOSS I am just as screwed, as with commercial apps, if the original programmer stops developing it, no one else picks it up and I either don´t have the time or can´t program. Am I any better off with the amateur in that case than the commercial programmer?

Originally Posted by sxr71 (Post 386154)

Just now I received a call. When I looked at the phone it was a blank screen. It glitched and it took about 5 seconds to show the actual answer button. Do you think people want to deal with this kind of thing?

You have grand visions of FOSS changing the world and freeing us of our dependence on money grubbing corporations and proprietary software. I respect that, but seriously you couldn't get people to care unless and until you package it right.

You linux chest thumpers will never understand that. Has even one Linux desktop distribution taken greater than 3% marketshare? Analyze the situation and learn from it if you want FOSS to succeed in the mobile space. Instead of criticizing the user's perspective, understand it. That is the only way you can pull off what you want to pull off.

Start with getting rid of the BS elitist attitude. That would be step one.

Originally Posted by aironeous (Post 386436)

OMFG so terrible! You actually had to put up with a small malfunction. OMFG you are so special and no device should ever disobey you cuz you are so special.
NEXT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Why is anyone listening to this negative guy? Get him and his long-winded criticisms out of the picture he is a complete waste of time.