Who buys software? Customers. If you said to a potential customer "My FOSSie software is 100% complaint with some goofy arbitrary MS-hating standard we cooked up... while MS Office works without crashing, won't drive your IT people insane, and will allow your employees to just work"... which software do you think they are going to choose? So wait, Microsoft Office works without crashing? FOSS drives IT people insane? Employees will stop playing solitaire if you give them Microsoft Office?...
When my company buys MS Office, I can hire someone who's supported it for years, and if something goes horribly wrong, I can call Microsoft. If I'm using Google Apps or Open Office whatever shit you guys want to push this week, who do I call? Who do I hire to support it? How do I distribute it to 100 or more workstations? Yeah, seems you guys can't really answer that, aside from telling me I can change the fucking source code if I have "a problem". Ooohhh wow, having access to the source code really helps the customer...\ I see no reason why you cannot hire someone who has supported an open source alternative for years.
I see no reason why you cannot call microsoft if the same open source alternative has problems.;-)
But if you really wanted to fix the problem, you could always read the documentation. Granted, not all FOSS has succinct documentation, but at least you have the choice to choose something better if you find a distinct lack of ease, use, and completeness in the documentation. (Or you could participate in the solution by reporting the bug, and ensuring that the fix is correctly applied to all relevant distributed apps)
Speaking of distribution, well, perhaps you should explore that avenue with some hard-earned knowledge spoils by good old fashioned research. I'm 100% sure you're not the first to come up with that problem, and you most certainly wouldn't be the first to solve it.
That's like when I was in the 2nd grade and this guy got mad at a bigger classmate... so instead of hitting the guy who made him made, he went and found the guy's sister sister in the 1st grade and sucker-punched her. Sounds good to me, at least then I'm pretty certain I can win the fight with the girl. *flexes muscles*
I've been warned now, would you like to move with me to Antarctica so we can escape this hysterical oppressive invasion of our privacy that by your religious translation marks the coming of a lion? ( or is it a tiger?..... possibly a bear?!)
With the demographics of rural farmlands, how many people are actually using cellphones in those areas? It's easy to mold a hypothosis to a problem and call it a theory, but if you don't think about it, or if the ulterior motive is just to generate hype, then you risk falling into the hysteria.
It could be right, but I won't beleive it until real scientists prove it using that little thing called the scientific method that hype-scientists forgot about.
I've noticed the same thing, on certain sites. Interestingly enough, if you stop the page loading, I've found the page simply loads without it, but then again, the page is being rendered on the go anyways.
Original argument was based on what he does with software in his own home. Selling/distributing is clearly over the boundaries of his own home, meta-physically or otherwise.
I don't buy PC's, I assemble Captain Planets out of PieCes.
Also, any wesbite that only works on IE is one person's fault. The webdesigner. There simply is no excuse.
The few IE only sites I've come across are.. (It's been a while so don't expect me to remember just where;P)
- Game Sites *shrugs* non-essential.
- Banking Sites (Though, it's been a while since I've seen that, too. Maybe they threw enough money at the right webdesign firm finally!)
- And a site that ran an anti-virus on your computer from their website. This smacks of the whole user-friendly-down-your-throat windows idealism anyways, so I'm pretty sure the average person could live without it.
But then again, the internet is an awfully big place, and I may have missed some really really nice web page somewhere that *shudders* was made by someone who doesn't know what a browser is, or even worse, at the expense of usability, doesn't care!
And finally, isn't Windows the OS that obfuscates file extensions and make opening things difficult? I don't think the same mindset is applied to *nix's fileschemes
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It should be less boring, since there's less walking
When my company buys MS Office, I can hire someone who's supported it for years, and if something goes horribly wrong, I can call Microsoft. If I'm using Google Apps or Open Office whatever shit you guys want to push this week, who do I call? Who do I hire to support it? How do I distribute it to 100 or more workstations? Yeah, seems you guys can't really answer that, aside from telling me I can change the fucking source code if I have "a problem". Ooohhh wow, having access to the source code really helps the customer...\ I see no reason why you cannot hire someone who has supported an open source alternative for years.
I see no reason why you cannot call microsoft if the same open source alternative has problems.
But if you really wanted to fix the problem, you could always read the documentation. Granted, not all FOSS has succinct documentation, but at least you have the choice to choose something better if you find a distinct lack of ease, use, and completeness in the documentation. (Or you could participate in the solution by reporting the bug, and ensuring that the fix is correctly applied to all relevant distributed apps)
Speaking of distribution, well, perhaps you should explore that avenue with some hard-earned knowledge spoils by good old fashioned research. I'm 100% sure you're not the first to come up with that problem, and you most certainly wouldn't be the first to solve it.
Last but not least, the question of why there are no open source billionaires has been asked before, and has been answered aptly, here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.html
Who got potato chip grease on my new processor!? *waves fist at AMD*
I find it more surprising that 50% of "gamer's" cpu's weren't AMD, considering how many gamers I know apparently have an AMD bible somewhere...
I've been warned now, would you like to move with me to Antarctica so we can escape this hysterical oppressive invasion of our privacy that by your religious translation marks the coming of a lion? ( or is it a tiger? ..... possibly a bear?!)
I suspect your trouble was in making the queen act like a normal worker, no?
So THAT'S why my cat runs into walls.
Let me clarify my original point a little bit.
With the demographics of rural farmlands, how many people are actually using cellphones in those areas? It's easy to mold a hypothosis to a problem and call it a theory, but if you don't think about it, or if the ulterior motive is just to generate hype, then you risk falling into the hysteria.
It could be right, but I won't beleive it until real scientists prove it using that little thing called the scientific method that hype-scientists forgot about.
It worked with Furbies!
I've noticed the same thing, on certain sites. Interestingly enough, if you stop the page loading, I've found the page simply loads without it, but then again, the page is being rendered on the go anyways.
If you've posted this same format of post in different threads before without actually contributing to conversation, GTFO!
Original argument was based on what he does with software in his own home. Selling/distributing is clearly over the boundaries of his own home, meta-physically or otherwise.
I don't buy PC's, I assemble Captain Planets out of PieCes. Also, any wesbite that only works on IE is one person's fault. The webdesigner. There simply is no excuse. The few IE only sites I've come across are.. (It's been a while so don't expect me to remember just where ;P)
- Game Sites *shrugs* non-essential.
- Banking Sites (Though, it's been a while since I've seen that, too. Maybe they threw enough money at the right webdesign firm finally!)
- And a site that ran an anti-virus on your computer from their website. This smacks of the whole user-friendly-down-your-throat windows idealism anyways, so I'm pretty sure the average person could live without it.
But then again, the internet is an awfully big place, and I may have missed some really really nice web page somewhere that *shudders* was made by someone who doesn't know what a browser is, or even worse, at the expense of usability, doesn't care!
And finally, isn't Windows the OS that obfuscates file extensions and make opening things difficult? I don't think the same mindset is applied to *nix's fileschemes
Who the f*ck uses a cellphone in the middle of a crop field?