@morbiuswilters said:
@beginner_ said:Plus a lot of commerical, propretiary software is a lot shitter than FOSS...
[citation needed] Seriously, provide some fucking examples if you're going to make dumb comments like this.
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You're welcome to come visit me at work. You know those
applications are like i said not stuff a lot of people know or use but they are
commercial and they are crappy. In this specific case it's an ASP (yes without
.net) based app. Just found a new WTF today on a search page. If in a certain
field you enter a string that is too long the application will say at the top
"Found 12 hits" (or so) and just below "Sorry, no hits
found". And if you then remove the one character to much all the hits
display properly.
@morbiuswilters said:
@beginner_ said:...then you lost because you can't fix it yourself.
Right, because writing patches for your window manager or office suite is clearly the fucking Gold Standard of quality..
Well again, there is stuff that isn't 100 Mio LOC and you can actually understand an adapt for your needs. Not to mention that for a lot of these things no commerical version exists at all. Just as example of a JS library I used and adjusted:
http://www.jsphylosvg.com/
I made it use raphael-zpd whichprobbaly wont say shit to you but anyway it makes the generated svg zoom, pan and draggable...which obvioulsy helps a lot with usability. And took 1 line of code. I could not have done what I needed to without this. Or it woudl have taken a lot longer...
@morbiuswilters said:
@beginner_ said:Of course stuff like MS Office, Adobe Photoshop etc. are better than the FOSS versions but then the budgets behind them are gigantic.
So fucking what? I love this fucking goalpost-moving. "FOSS is better than proprietary!" "Really, what about all these shitty apps that can't even compare?" "whine Well, of course the proprietary versions of those are better, but that's not fair to bring up because they have large budgets behind them!!" "Well what FOSS apps are comparable (or ever better) than their proprietary competitors?" "silence Well, even if the FOSS apps do have bugs, at least you can waste a lot of time trying to patch them yourself! Because clearly that pissed-away effort doesn't count against FOSS, it's actually a bonus!"
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I'm not saying it's better. I'm saying there is crappy
commercial proprietary software out there and a lo. Also commercial
"enterprise" support tends to suck and so does maintenance fees
because mostly, if you actually want a specific feature, you have to pay it
separately. And then there are a lot of small projects (like the one above)
which no commercial version exists of and which are very helpful. You know not
all people juts use Office and Photoshop and other standard of the shelf stuff.
Some people actually do have more specialized needs....but I doubt you get that with your limited view...