Google| Subject | Re: Advocacy |
| From | chrisv |
| Date | 09/07/2017 15:29 (09/07/2017 08:29) |
| Message-ID | <oth2rcl8gpg6402aebtlgg8t5tr46jhj84@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Follows | Doomsdrzej |
| Followups | Doomsdrzej (44m) > chrisv |
Doomsdrzej wrote:
DoomsdrzejThere is nothing wrong with proprietary software, per se. Certainly, the paranoid will always prefer OSS.
As such, I keep getting drawn back to Linux. Windows works better for certain things and is especially better for gaming, but the use of proprietary software, honestly, goes against my principles.
I still think that the people behind excellent software should be remunerated,They are compensated "well enough", or they wouldn't do it. However, nature of these markets means that most cutting-edge or specialty/prefessional software will be closed-source.
but I would hope that in exchange these people would be willing to allow an experienced, ethical programmer to look at the code if there was even a doubt that the software was working against the user.Not a very practical solution, really.
-- "Any reason you don't work for free, turd?" - Dumfsck
09/06/2017
