racerror

Wow. This is borderline unreadable.

I agree with you.

The point I was making, albeit poorly, was open-source is awesome. git, github and pull requests make it even better.

When someone contributes something that may be half-baked and someone else comes along to critique it. A pull-request that demonstrates the solution can be an equally efficient means of communicating the same criticism. Meanwhile, the whole community reaps the benefit of that effort.

TLDR; OSS devs should favor, "showing the way" and github makes that easy.

You could have cloned, made proposed changes to the source, pushed and made a pull request. Then, referenced it here, made the same point and provided the solution with the same amount of effort as your English-only criticism.

Corporate procurement practices and policies definitely come into play, as well.

With Linux, there isn't a consensus laptop model that everyone will request. One ends up with a lot of one off business cases, vendors, service contracts, etc.

With Mac, you have a consistent upgrade cycle, one service contact, and no fragmentation of OS distribution usage, etc.

TLDR; It's easier to say "I want a macbook pro w/ cinema display..." and "we hired another developer, please re-order a mac dev setup", than any similar Linux setup.

I'm pretty sure this is why their experts deem this impossible:

"[x] Display Screen Names [] Display Real Names"

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