Re:Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
by na85 on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:34AM
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I agree with 'de_watcher that FOSS/encumbered is an orthogonal axis to complexity/simplicity.
Lots of FOSS software is excessively complex (the systemd ecosystem of shovelware comes immediately to mind) and lots of FOSS is simple. Similarly there are untold thousands of overcomplicated/overengineered proprietary suites and of course it's hard for a graphical application to get simpler than notepad.exe.
Lots of FOSS software is excessively complex (the systemd ecosystem of shovelware comes immediately to mind) and lots of FOSS is simple. Similarly there are untold thousands of overcomplicated/overengineered proprietary suites and of course it's hard for a graphical application to get simpler than notepad.exe.