• Dear open-source: You're ruining the economy, Cut that shit out
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[QUOTE=waxrock;20358652]Who the hell would get OpenOffice over Microsoft Office?[/QUOTE] My cheap-ass school. Fuckin' sucks.
[QUOTE=waxrock;20358652]Who the hell would get OpenOffice over Microsoft Office?[/QUOTE] People like me who can't afford MS Office. :saddowns: The main benefit to open-source is that even people who aren't part of the project, but are programmers, can contribute various fixes or new functions that the original devs either can't figure out on their own, or couldn't think of it themselves. It also makes it easier to make add-ons because the person MAKING the add-on can see the guts of what he's trying to develop for and make sure his project works the way it's supposed to. Yes, buying software is good for the economy and all, but if I just need something to type up a quick document for school and I can't afford MS Office, then I'm damn sure going to find a free alternative even if it DOESN'T come with all the bells and whistles.
Terrible troll, his arguments are too easily shot down.
I don't see why you guys keep calling him a terrible troll when he obviously evoked some form of response out of most of you.
[QUOTE=UberMensch;20360725]With stuff like Windows/OSX there's a unified platform to develop on. With the thousands of Linux distros, most of them only include what the developers feel is right for their project. So when you come to install stuff, all of a sudden you're missing various libraries and sources which the developers couldn't fit on the game disc.[/QUOTE] This isn't a problem. All common distros have a package manager that takes care of these issues. You just have to make a "game-name-here-deps.deb" package that pulls the libraries you use as a dependency. They have to do this for different versions of Windows, anyway (different VS deps, .NET, different APIs, DX runtimes, etc.) [QUOTE=weeman007;20358598]Not really, open source is like a hobby. When people are paid all day to code an Operating System it tends to turn out a bit better.[/QUOTE] So you're suggesting that someone being paid to write something will turn out better than someone who does it out of his own free will, for [B]fun?[/B] I'd say the latter is more likely to enjoy what he works on and make it even better. The former would have an incentive to half-ass the job; after all he's still getting paid. Either way, this is irrelevant. Both you and the OP are completely oblivious to the fact that thousands of people are being paid to write open source software.
[QUOTE=gparent;20361539] So you're suggesting that someone being paid to write something will turn out better than someone who does it out of his own free will, for [B]fun?[/B] I'd say the latter is more likely to enjoy what he works on and make it even better. The former would have an incentive to half-ass the job; after all he's still getting paid. [/QUOTE] If I like coding it's fine, but if I like coding and get paid for it, I sure as hell will do a better job.
[QUOTE=johanz;20361669]If I like coding it's fine, but if I like coding and get paid for it, I sure as hell will do a better job.[/QUOTE] Then maybe you don't like coding that much in the first place. I perform the same whether I'm paid or not because I [b]like[/b] what I do. I don't mind spending time to make code work good because I find it fun.
[QUOTE=gparent;20361691]Then maybe you don't like coding that much in the first place. I perform the same whether I'm paid or not because I [b]like[/b] what I do. I don't mind spending time to make code work good because I find it fun.[/QUOTE] But you don't start to code worse when you get paid, do you?
[QUOTE=JIAC;20361536]I don't see why you guys keep calling him a terrible troll when he obviously evoked some form of response out of most of you.[/QUOTE] That's not enough to make him a good troll. This is PCHS, pretty much anything that's even slightly controversial can start a huge argument.
[QUOTE=johanz;20361776]But you don't start to code worse when you get paid, do you?[/QUOTE] No, but you might be willing to do things you wouldn't have done if you weren't paid. Meaning you can be less interested in your work, and thus sloppier.
There will always be people without common sense that go off and buy the most overpriced software on the market instead of the cheap/free alternative. So the software economy will never die.
Lol.
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