Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
by na85 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:35PM
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>And I would even say: despite having 0 budget, they were immensely successful over time.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because from where I sit, Free Software had a bright spark at the beginning and slowly faded away into a miserable failure.
Apple sells a lot of laptops because they're really easy to use. The wifi "just works" and the battery life is excellent.
To a first approximation, zero people run fully-free stacks on their daily-driver laptops because they're not easy to use unless you're the kind of person who uses their 2005-vintage Thinkpad on Ethernet and AC power only.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because from where I sit, Free Software had a bright spark at the beginning and slowly faded away into a miserable failure.
Apple sells a lot of laptops because they're really easy to use. The wifi "just works" and the battery life is excellent.
To a first approximation, zero people run fully-free stacks on their daily-driver laptops because they're not easy to use unless you're the kind of person who uses their 2005-vintage Thinkpad on Ethernet and AC power only.