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bybug1 ( 96678 ) writes:
So corporations are complaining that the software that they get for free and use to make truck loads of money isnt exactly what they want.
Ive got an idea, WRITE YOUR OWN DAMNED SOFTWARE, or maybe participate constructively in the community. Dont just complain, do some work yourself on the same terms as the work you received.
"Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no body to be kicked and no soul to be damned?" - Edward Thurlow
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byshutdown -p now ( 807394 ) writes:
So corporations are complaining that the software that they get for free and use to make truck loads of money isnt exactly what they want.
Ive got an idea, WRITE YOUR OWN DAMNED SOFTWARE, or maybe participate constructively in the community. Dont just complain, do some work yourself on the same terms as the work you received.
This is fucked up on so many levels I can't even begin to think on how to reply to it.
Ever since Chrome was released, the constant /. whine in every single Chrome-related news story was "so when will it be released for Linux?!!". Google was aggressively bashed for not writing a cross-platform browser in the first place. Never mind that there's no business case for them doing so, but somehow FOSS'ies think that Google is obligated to do so nevertheless (just to spite Microsoft?).
Now Google has finally decide
byPerky_Goth ( 594327 ) writes:
So, what exactly did Google "get for free"
Webkit, for starters.
It's not like it's always the same guy saying his opinion, you know.
bybug1 ( 96678 ) writes:
So, what exactly did Google "get for free"
They get the software that they run on their server farms for free.
Google has a lot of servers... how much would they be paying if it was all commercial software ?
byshutdown -p now ( 807394 ) writes:
They get the software that they run on their server farms for free.
Great, and? Are they complaining about how that free software runs their servers?
bybug1 ( 96678 ) writes:
The two are related, FOSS is more about a development methodology (or ideology) rather than just being executable bits.
If you want to understand you need to learn about "community".
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