Re: Practicality of GNU project and libre movement

[Miles Fidelman]

On 7/23/20 4:09 PM, Davis Remmel wrote:

> Miles Fidelman, what's the point of being so rude? Your comments were mostly 
> un-constructive, and the fact that you aren't able to entertain the OP's 
> opinions says a lot about your abilities to criticize.
>
> The OP has a good point, that free software is largely restricted by funding, 
> and while you point out some large successful projects, most free software 
> projects are not like that. A very topical conversation this month is about 
> LibreOffice's funding.

Some newbie know-nothing jumps in, mouths some uninformed bullshit 
opinion & rains on our parade, and I'm being rude?

There's lots to be said about the economics of software development - 
free & otherwise - but bullshit is bullshit, and deserves to be called 
out.  Otherwise, they don't learn nothin.

Fie I say.  Fie.

Miles Fidelman

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown