[LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.

[Louigi Verona]

In my experience, an update can easily kill your system - and that happened
to me more than once. And since I am not a customer, developers on the
other end must not worry about what happens. I mean, nobody owes the user
anything. "Fix it yourself, man". And it's fair.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Neil C Smith <neilcsmith.net at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:12 PM Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nothing in the concept of FLOSS promises floss software to actually be
>> more high quality or more stable. All it guarantees is that you can
>> distribute it and modify. So why would it magically be more stable than
>> proprietary?
>>
>
> No, I get you're serious - more amused by how different your experience is
> to my own - I'm sure I can crash a Mac by looking at them. ;-)  I'm not
> necessarily saying that there aren't problems, but that it's far less
> likely in my experience that a FLOSS system that's working solidly one day
> will behave differently the next.
>
> But actually there is something in FLOSS that I think does sometimes make
> for more stable software, if less featured - there's no money to be made in
> fixing bugs.
>
> Mind you, my usual response to anyone asking me why I work with FLOSS is
> that I got fed up of paying for software that doesn't work properly - we've
> got all our own shit that doesn't work properly, but at least I don't feel
> like I've been screwed over. ;-)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Neil
> --
> Neil C Smith
> Artist & Technologist
> www.neilcsmith.net
>
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>



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Louigi Verona
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https://louigiverona.com/
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