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Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source?
Jason Baker writes: Most everyone is using an open source tool somewhere in their workflow, but relatively few are contributing back their time to sustaining the projects they use. But these days, there are plenty of ways to contribute to an open source project without submitting code. Projects like OpenHatch will even help you match your skill set to a project in need. So what's holding you back? Time? Lack of interest? Difficulty getting started?
is this real? i am using gedit 3.4.1 on ubuntu 12.04 and looks like the first picture (works good too btw)
i think open source is being infultrated by paid hipsters set out to ruin UI experience... their gameplan appears to be:
find the most commonly used programs in open source and "UI CANCER IT TO DEATH BY REMOVING ALL FEATURES, HIDING ALL MENUS BEHIND OTHER MENUS AND REMOVING ALL EASY TO UNDERSTAND BUTTONS"
The long term solution is to fork the project or switch to a better distro, the short term solution is to YELL LOUDLY AT PAID UI HIPSTER CANCERS RUINING OUR SOFTWARE, maybe make a list of UI HIPSTER CANCERS and a list of current battlegrounds...
Screw you!
I'm a FOSS developer painting murals along a self-made mountain bike trail for the elderly. As far as the trash goes, that's usually what becomes of my mural.
My workplace uses a number of open source projects.
Not because they support a particular point-of-view, or it fills a need, but because it's free.
The boss is probably a psychopath, doesn't give a fuck about anyone but himself. Will pile 15 hours of work up for you on Friday, 2 hours before you finish, and tell you that you should have started sooner. Since you didn't, you get to work for free over the weekend to keep your job.
I've been involved in a couple of meetings, and he talked about using a number of specialised open source projects because they fill our needs, and then he laughed it off saying "We don't pay for it, and we'll be one of their biggest users. They can support us."
That's why I don't, because cunts like him get to prosper on $100k/year while all his minimum wage staff do the work for him.
You know, I could swear someone told me this wasn't a problem with open source, I wish I could remember their name... see-a-lots? They said that unlike normal software or pri... pro.. propiratory software as they called it they said open source is all about choice. If I didn't like anything I could just change it to make it look and work like I want it to. The details are a bit hazy to me, but I hope it's easy to use and comes with a good tutorial. And it had the strangest name, I thought those belonged in a kitchen drawer. Knife? Spoon? Ah no, they called it a fork. Not sure what kind of fork that is, it sounded almost magical. You know like in Star Trek "Use the fork, Luke". Come to think of it they did look like they had seen that a few too many times. Or maybe you should try a different bistro? Sorry, distro. I think it was some kind of collection of forks, like cutlery. You wouldn't want to eat steak with a butter knife, right? Or maybe you're just holding it wrong, that's what the nice person in the fruit store told me. A real genius he was, it even said so on his shirt. Maybe he can help you too?
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I do not support cults. Nuff said.
But are you a member of the cult of people who do not support cults?
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