@morbiuswilters said:
Let's compare the following FOSS vs. proprietary programs:
- A not-shit image-editing program.
- A video program that doesn't have a case of HIV.
- A filesystem with modern features like usable block-level snapshots. (ZFS doesn't count--it was created as a proprietary software product by a proprietary company. It wasn't developed by the FOSS community. Just like Java doesn't count--it was open sourced after a decade of proprietary development. FOSStards trying to claim credit for that is like me trying to claim credit for bringing a chick to orgasm after the vibrator warmed her up for 20 minutes and all I did is pant and groan for 8 seconds before collapsing and falling asleep.)
- A desktop environment that isn't an ineptly-assembled piece of shit.
1, and 4 involve GUIs, so I would agree.
2. usually involves needing to reverse engineer a proprietary codec (and possibly also encryption scheme) somewhere where said reverse engineering is legal, which severely limits participation.
For 3, what about LVM? It had block level snapshots before ZFS. Strictly speaking it isn't a filesystem, but there are a number of features that people get excited about in ZFS that LVM had first.