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

[Louigi Verona]

Microsoft and Apple are not the only examples of proprietary software, sir.
And proprietary software developer is not necessarily a "corporation".

In the end, it should not be a discussion of opinions (I agree with Louigi,
I don't agree with Louigi), it should be a discussion with facts and
statistics.

There are areas of floss vs proprietary where stability and reliability are
more or less the same. There are areas where proprietary clearly wins
(video editors would be an obvious example). Maybe there are cases where
floss is better that proprietary counterparts, although I have not seen a
class of such examples.


I have reacted to the initial post because a person was claiming that
because *a problem* on a Mac happened - that means that everything which is
a Mac is now a problem. I have responded that this does not sound very
reasonable and that I can talk about *a problem* I had with Linux and apply
the same logic.

I think this rebuke was appropriate. Making sweeping generalizations about
all Macs or about all proprietary software (or about floss, for that
matter) based on isolated incidents is not an approach that will deliver an
objective overview of the situation in the world of software.


And, if I want to be pedantic, the initial post is an off-topic post
anyway. It has little to do with LAU or LAD.






On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:13 PM, A. P. Garcia <a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I would argue that when there is no customer relationship, updates can be
> > more lax. I mean, I am working in the software industry. When someone is
> > paying you and you know they are using your system for actual results,
> you
> > are very careful with your updates.
>
> nope nope nope. I work in IT, and we got burned one too many times by
> applying patches on Microsoft's patch Tuesday, so we moved our patch
> night back a week. Let other people be Redmond's guinea pigs.
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