This is also a good example of why making an android level user friendly desktop Linux distribution should be number one priority for FOSS developers. We need UX designers, Artists, and non-technicals in FOSS.
Development is one of the few “creative” areas where working for free is considered not-strange (it’s still not common). For various cultural reasons that essentially stem from the abuse of artists, most higher creatives strongly resist working for free.
If my phone were charged I’d take a picture of the document that discourages free work of just about any form to the creative students at my university.
A big part of this is probably the existence of copyleft licenses which provide a legal mechanism to guarantee that continued work will be contributed back to the community. I wonder if a similar mechanism exists for artists (perhaps creative commons?).
It’s also important that software has a useful notion of “contributing back to the original work”, and that contributing is both standardised (my copy of git and the language compiler probably works the same as yours) and idiomatic (diffs, patches, and PRs are all well-known tools). It seems possible in theory to have large, open source, collaborative design projects (where many designers contribute back to a single project under copyleft terms), but I’m not aware of a “standard” design format with both a critical mass of users and good support for decentralised contributions.
I think free work should be discouraged if someone else is profiting. However if it such a taboo because they have a history of being abused and low quality of life perhaps we should start an money pool to pay for contributors who don’t have a higher paying job like software development.
Personally, I don’t think FOSS is a good fit in that situation.
Just my opinion, but I feel the open source model works best when the contributors are working on the project because it’s something they want or need themselves, OR because the project offers some kind of unique and interesting challenge.
A novice friendly desktop doesn’t fall into either category.
Funny because the android OS gets a LOT of contributions. Just because something is novice friendly doesn’t mean it has to be crippled in any way. Also there’s a lot of unique and interesting challenges in making a user friendly operating system.
Off-topic but relevant to the link: WAPO’s new method of nudging folks with ad-blockers is pretty anti-user. It appears to push the root of the site onto the history, so a reload of the page loads the front page instead of the story. The way to stop it? Stop page loading as soon as the body text loads: the gatekeeper is JavaScript and among the last things to load.
I’ve always found the granularity of running my adblock/noscript in-browser to far exceed any convenience advantage enjoyed by a pihole. IP bans just aren’t enough, especially vs “modern” sites with tons of JS.
Windows 10 in particular is such a miserable experience, it’s just abhorent. I’m at a big dumb corp now that’s still standardized on Win 7. Does anyone know of any large organizations using win 10? I saw 8.1 a couple of years ago at a fortune 500.
In other words, how can MS not see 10 as a giant mis-step?
…because most of those Corporations stayed on Windows XP as long as possible and in some caseseven longer. It seems logical to me that they would stay on Windows 7 as long as possible because the incentives for upgrading are just aren’t there in such environments. If they would use free software, the would probably be on CentOS 5 or something like this at this point.
This is such a sad story.
This is also a good example of why making an android level user friendly desktop Linux distribution should be number one priority for FOSS developers. We need UX designers, Artists, and non-technicals in FOSS.
Development is one of the few “creative” areas where working for free is considered not-strange (it’s still not common). For various cultural reasons that essentially stem from the abuse of artists, most higher creatives strongly resist working for free.
If my phone were charged I’d take a picture of the document that discourages free work of just about any form to the creative students at my university.
A big part of this is probably the existence of copyleft licenses which provide a legal mechanism to guarantee that continued work will be contributed back to the community. I wonder if a similar mechanism exists for artists (perhaps creative commons?).
It’s also important that software has a useful notion of “contributing back to the original work”, and that contributing is both standardised (my copy of git and the language compiler probably works the same as yours) and idiomatic (diffs, patches, and PRs are all well-known tools). It seems possible in theory to have large, open source, collaborative design projects (where many designers contribute back to a single project under copyleft terms), but I’m not aware of a “standard” design format with both a critical mass of users and good support for decentralised contributions.
I think free work should be discouraged if someone else is profiting. However if it such a taboo because they have a history of being abused and low quality of life perhaps we should start an money pool to pay for contributors who don’t have a higher paying job like software development.
Personally, I don’t think FOSS is a good fit in that situation.
Just my opinion, but I feel the open source model works best when the contributors are working on the project because it’s something they want or need themselves, OR because the project offers some kind of unique and interesting challenge.
A novice friendly desktop doesn’t fall into either category.
Funny because the android OS gets a LOT of contributions. Just because something is novice friendly doesn’t mean it has to be crippled in any way. Also there’s a lot of unique and interesting challenges in making a user friendly operating system.
Off-topic but relevant to the link: WAPO’s new method of nudging folks with ad-blockers is pretty anti-user. It appears to push the root of the site onto the history, so a reload of the page loads the front page instead of the story. The way to stop it? Stop page loading as soon as the body text loads: the gatekeeper is JavaScript and among the last things to load.
I’m using uBlock Origin and uMatrix and I don’t see anything.
Pihole, here.
I’ve always found the granularity of running my adblock/noscript in-browser to far exceed any convenience advantage enjoyed by a pihole. IP bans just aren’t enough, especially vs “modern” sites with tons of JS.
Windows 10 in particular is such a miserable experience, it’s just abhorent. I’m at a big dumb corp now that’s still standardized on Win 7. Does anyone know of any large organizations using win 10? I saw 8.1 a couple of years ago at a fortune 500.
In other words, how can MS not see 10 as a giant mis-step?
…because most of those Corporations stayed on Windows XP as long as possible and in some caseseven longer. It seems logical to me that they would stay on Windows 7 as long as possible because the incentives for upgrading are just aren’t there in such environments. If they would use free software, the would probably be on CentOS 5 or something like this at this point.