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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by fit2rule on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:12AM (#20526045)
Yes, I think the OS vendors are asleep at the wheel, or they're drunk/high on the moolah to be made by putting the user out there in the data-harvesting markets.

If we had still real OS vendors, there wouldn't be Dropbox or Facebook - these services would've just been folded in as user-controllable, user-centric services that the local OS manages .. I think the general public have been betrayed by those who should have been building better user-controlled operating systems, rather than exposing it all ..

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by brachi on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:21AM (#20526130)
Remember the original Dropbox post [1]? "You can do it with rsync!". The general public seem to want this. Companies just seem to do what people want. I guess those things are ease of use, zero friction, and minimum learning curve. To do all that in Linux for example, you have to invest in learning, which might not be what people want.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by Crinus on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:23AM (#20526148)
People want that because all they know is the positive aspects that are advertised to them, not the negative aspects that are kept hidden and downplayed.
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