Really, I don't care that the bitch at McDonalds gave you attitude, or how your day at work went, or your opinion on anything. And I definitely don't want to see the video.
Blogs are like personal webpages 10 years ago. For a little while, everyone had one. Then they realized other than 2 or 3 of their friends, nobody cared. I give blogs about a year before all the bloggers realize that the vast majority of people still don't care.
I just wish it'd hurry up and die. If I see another fucked up word like "videobloggery" I'm going to scream.
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That's an interesting perspective, but how does that increase your freedom? You can theoretically modify the source code? It would seem to me that for most very large OSS projects with large codebases (>100K loc) I would be able to code my own before I could learn the codebase well enough to make non-trivial changes.
Look at the large, popular OSS projects: Firefox, OpenOffice, GCC, Linux, etc. Yeah, anyone can modify the source, but other than a small group of core developers, how many people actually do?
The only custom builds of FF I know of are Netscape 8, K-Meleon and some nightly builds that get compiled with optimizations on. Netscape has an entire company with paid developers working on it. Can I expect to modify FF as much as Netscape did, by myself? No, probably not. K-Meleon doesn't have a company behind it, but again, there's a group of developers behind it. Or is OSS about the "freedom" to make optimized nightly builds? I doubt it. Unless I can find a group of people to help me, I'm no more free than using Opera or IE.
Does anyone mod OpenOffice?
Linux distros? How many of them make major changes to the kernel? (Honest question, I have no idea, but I'm guessing not many.) How many of them are released by a single person? Again, if you have a company to work on it, awesome. But a single developer would be overwhelmed.
The only one that's heavily modified is GCC, and that's almost always backend code generation stuff for new platforms, not major changes to the compiler. That's great, but how am I more free while compiling to x86?
Yeah, it may be a huge freedom, but what does it matter if the only people able to take advantage of that freedom are those who have enough money/charm to pay/convince other people to help them? Shit, for enough money I'm sure MS would port VC++ to Linux if you asked them.
I use as much free/OSS software as I can, and I appreciate the developer's hard work, but I use it because I don't have to pay, not for "freedom".
P.S. If I'm wrong about any of that, please let me know, I'd be really interested.
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Those seem like fairly obvious choices.
Really, I don't care that the bitch at McDonalds gave you attitude, or how your day at work went, or your opinion on anything. And I definitely don't want to see the video.
The few blogs I can think of that are marginally useful (like http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp>Artima.com ) wouldn't benefit from video anyway.
Blogs are like personal webpages 10 years ago. For a little while, everyone had one. Then they realized other than 2 or 3 of their friends, nobody cared. I give blogs about a year before all the bloggers realize that the vast majority of people still don't care.
I just wish it'd hurry up and die. If I see another fucked up word like "videobloggery" I'm going to scream.
That's all they really need to say.
That's an interesting perspective, but how does that increase your freedom? You can theoretically modify the source code? It would seem to me that for most very large OSS projects with large codebases (>100K loc) I would be able to code my own before I could learn the codebase well enough to make non-trivial changes.
Look at the large, popular OSS projects: Firefox, OpenOffice, GCC, Linux, etc. Yeah, anyone can modify the source, but other than a small group of core developers, how many people actually do?
The only custom builds of FF I know of are Netscape 8, K-Meleon and some nightly builds that get compiled with optimizations on. Netscape has an entire company with paid developers working on it. Can I expect to modify FF as much as Netscape did, by myself? No, probably not. K-Meleon doesn't have a company behind it, but again, there's a group of developers behind it. Or is OSS about the "freedom" to make optimized nightly builds? I doubt it. Unless I can find a group of people to help me, I'm no more free than using Opera or IE.
Does anyone mod OpenOffice?
Linux distros? How many of them make major changes to the kernel? (Honest question, I have no idea, but I'm guessing not many.) How many of them are released by a single person? Again, if you have a company to work on it, awesome. But a single developer would be overwhelmed.
The only one that's heavily modified is GCC, and that's almost always backend code generation stuff for new platforms, not major changes to the compiler. That's great, but how am I more free while compiling to x86?
Yeah, it may be a huge freedom, but what does it matter if the only people able to take advantage of that freedom are those who have enough money/charm to pay/convince other people to help them? Shit, for enough money I'm sure MS would port VC++ to Linux if you asked them.
I use as much free/OSS software as I can, and I appreciate the developer's hard work, but I use it because I don't have to pay, not for "freedom".
P.S. If I'm wrong about any of that, please let me know, I'd be really interested.