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by mindcrime 2936 days ago
Sure, as soon as they open-source Windows, Office, and Sharepoint and make the XBox platform Open Hardware.
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So only open source software can be cool? I don't really get that perspective.
I want to be able to know what my machine is actually running. It gives me some nice warm fuzzy feeling knowing that I have that option. I probably won't but still, I like having that option.
The option of spending a lifetime reading the Windows code in order to 'know what your machine is running'? it's such an old argument but no one ever talks about how fucking cumbersome is to read code, even in work itself, moreso outside of work, unpaid.
You know it's actually really important to be able to read code. Reading any code makes you a better developer, even old fortran which makes no sense, and has bad practices.
Open source Sharepoint? Why would anyone want that?
They wouldn't, it's just the principle of the thing!