hi all, On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:39:02 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <kde.li...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 15:45 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > you can fork FOSS whose devs you dislike > > Hi, > > only when 2 things come together > > 1. you must have the skills > > 2. you must have the time > you need2have them when forking proprietary SW too (in addition to restrictive licences and inavailability of sources). > A third point, hardware, completely disregarded. I don't mean the driver > problem, but the variety of hardware combinations that can lead to > things such as jitter, which becomes an unsolvable problem in real-time > applications in terms of software. > > Proprietary systems cannot be replaced by a good attitude and FLOSS > only. > > Don't get me wrong, good attempts exist, such as > https://www.cip-project.org/ . > > However, it's of no use to the freelance artist, for example, if Linux > isn't even remotely up-to-date in many domains. If I want to, for > example, I can play violins with my guitar, that's not possible with a > MIDIfied guitar and a sample player only, you need software that models > a violin. > > You don't get everything you need to make a living when using FLOSS > only. > As a blogger/writer, and software dev geek, I have made 10s of millions of USDs , while using FOSS fedora desktop. > Non-linear video editing even without all the patented features? Desktop > publishing? It's not just about what's possible with Linux, it's about > how quickly you can achieve a result. > > We cannot just build a car, even if we have got the skills, we still > need the time, the room and tools to do this. If we are able to build > our own car, we still need to get the permission to use it. > > It's not much different for software. > > Not even an all-rounder has unlimited time and needs to prioritize. Does > s/he want to write software or does s/he want to produce something that > already requires mature software? > > My everyday user-centric Linux distribution is Arch Linux. I'm currently > experimenting with Alpine Linux. Something like this is time consuming > even with a lot of experience. You can't just install a user-friendly > distro to get things done, there are proprietary solutions for certain > tasks. > > But I must stop writing now, as I have yet to bake my buns and weave the > fabric for my laundry right after I have sheared the sheep that graze on > my lands. > heh, reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/EDM/comments/26e2vw/i_thought_using_loops_was_cheating/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus and https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1542047869989011457 . -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ Knuth is not God! Unless you confuse him with Dijkstra. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Knuth/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
