Celebrate Software Freedom Today 107
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An anonymous reader writes "It's that time of the year again: when we all unite regardless of the (free) licenses we cherish and go out into the streets to let people know how Free Software has changed our lives. With over 425 events in 80+ countries, communities as diverse as Joomla!, FreeBSD and The OpenDisc, to name just a few, will be celebrating all over the world. Don't wait; grab your best arguments and join the wild masses of freedom lovers to the software freedom parties. Where will you be partying today?"
Microsoft has likewise failed (Score:4, Insightful)
even lower than a Java based phone OS?
I clicked the link and got "There was a problem retrieving your account information. Please contact support."
If there is ANY CLI then YOU HAVE FAILED.
Then Microsoft has likewise failed because the Windows recovery console is not graphical, and because the process for specifying arguments to a program run as a scheduled task (Start > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks) is not graphical.
How about a "find drivers" button, both of which your competitor has had for years?
Ubuntu has one of those: System Settings > Hardware > Additional Drivers. So how does one convince device manufacturers to make working Linux drivers available to Linux distributors from day one, as opposed to Windows and Mac OS X on day one and Linux as an afterthought? The only way to get a "find drivers" button is to make a kernel that can use another operating system's drivers, and ReactOS has a chance to succeed where Linux failed because ReactOS aims for compatibility with the NT 5.x kernel used in said ten-year-old version of Windows.
Its just human nature folks, humans are visually oriented creatures that like to touch and explore.
So how does one automate a task by touching and exploring? I thought the whole point of using a computer was to automate repetitive information processing tasks.
CLIs are about as UNINTUITIVE an interface as you could possibly design
That's like saying giving someone instructions in English is about as UNINTUITIVE an interface as you could possibly design. Better to point and grunt.
Re:How do I make money in a free software world? (Score:4, Insightful)
I need to feed my family. I write code for a living. How do I get paid for doing this in a world where all software is free?
I would think the answer was pretty obvious. Write software for which there is no free equivalent, or write software that is better than the free equivalent.
Re:How do I make money in a free software world? (Score:5, Insightful)
What terrible comments (Score:4, Insightful)
Half are trolls, most are useless, and few are above +3. Slashdot's demographics seem to have rotted out completely.
Re:How do I make money in a free software world? (Score:5, Insightful)
You provide services to install, configure, maintain, and customize the OSS core.
Or you use the OSS components to build custom solutions.
Except for wildly successful proprietary solutions, the money has always been in the customization. The only difference with OSS is you may have competition because other people also have access to that same OSS core.