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We Do This NOT Because It Is Easy, But Because We Thought It Would Be Easy
I like to joke at work about the 95/5 split. “I got this thing 95% done messing around last couple hours. Should be done in 2 weeks”
80% done, 80% to be done.
edit: ℅ to %
FOSS addiction pipeline summed up in one sentence
Bill Gates was one of if not the very first to make his software closed source and for profit it’s largely because of him that closed source software is more common than open source software.
the first few versions of windows were just amalgmations of open source projects that existed at the time
I’m pretty sure Bill Gates was not the first to do so, but he was a major driving force.
Earlier, there was a trend of code sharing in magazine, BBSs, etc. So someone wanting to make a business selling software had to deal with rampant piracy. Software licenses didn’t really exist back then. So if you “bought” a program you could share it with others because since you bought it you “owned” it and could do anything with it.
Bill Gates then famously wrote an open letter to the programming hobbyist community in 1976 criticizing the code sharing practice that conflicts with those trying to sell software. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
I think it’s fascinating that Richard Stallman wrote a free software manifesto and Bill Gates wrote a proprietary software manifesto. I knew about the former for a long time before I heard about the latter.
And yet, in spite of this, FOSS is superior.
That would be IBM well before Gates was born.
Completely off the cuff and uneducated opinion, but I think it’s because when money is transferred there’s an implied contract that if something fucks up, because you’ve paid money, the responsibility to fix it is on the producer.
That said, reality is way different to a comical level.
The fuck are krisprolls? Never heard of them before as a Finn
