Hello Nick!

10 Jun 2018 22:26, Nick Andre wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 BP>>  RN> You still have X, Y, Z and a host of other options.  (-:
 BP>> opensource is nice :)
 NA> A wise man told me "I'm afraid now this is a knee-jerk response in a 
 NA> way you may not like to hear".

how should i know how to help with X, Y, Z ?

 NA> I am seriously so sick to death of what I believe is the good-majority 
 NA> of Linux techies having this unquestionable God-like devotion to that bum
 NA> and absolute horror of a human being, toenail-clipping-eating Richard
 NA> Stallman, GNU, "Free-is-best and commercial-software-be-damned" 
 NA> mentality.

we have fun always, i know you know how to compile things on windows, no
intented jokes about it, if ever i need to downgrade to dos programs it
would be on 16bit dos level so my amiga 500 can run it on the pc286 card i
have in it :)

nothing new is since happend on intel cpus that i need, i just begin have
good time on my old days with all the updates world have created since
then, eg raspberry pi any model

 NA> For years as a Fido developer I have had the pleasure of receiving 
 NA> Echomail, Netmail and Internet email about why D'Bridge is not open
source. And 
 NA> when I state my logical reasons why, most of the time I am looked upon as an 
 NA> idiot because I don't publish source code like Mystic, HPT and Synchronet.

be polite now to write idiot, it will go back some times

 NA> All three of those programs are very nice, but have had the exact same 
 NA> problems as closed-source mailers, tossers, BBS software etc. If the 
 NA> code is open source, shouldn't there be such a huge crowd of people
working to 
 NA> fix it?

its just harder for bug reporters to show where X, Y, Z is in precompild
problems, why not disclose it, to make more intrested in helping make it
work better ?, thats how i see it, you dont want to shoot your self in
foots if i know you well ?

 NA> For every Linux techie that told me over the years that open-source is 
 NA> more trustworthy and secure and Windows is garbage... I ask them if they 
 NA> have personally studied and reviewed the Linux kernal source. Nope. Have 
 NA> they studied the code for Firefox? Nope. What about the code for all of 
 NA> your the device drivers? Cue to the crickets chirping. So you have
"to trust 
 NA> it".

opensource is not a garenti for people do something in return, but if not
opensource its not possible to try atleast

 NA> Now I'm aware of the Windows-10 situation, telemetry, all of that... 
 NA> no I don't like it and no I do not run Windows 10.

i dont like windows defender trying to reset my chrome settings, do thay
know ing what thay do there ?, chrome apps running on windows browser is in
sync with google, and thus same plugins go to chromebooks, so basicly
windows defender removes or disable chromebook apps, how fucking silly can
microsoft be there ?

sorry for saying idiots now

 NA> But if Windows is such crap, how come its been many years now and 
 NA> Linux still is not Desktop ready?

try slackware ?, try see how stable kde is there ?

 NA> Why is the focus on adding useless hated things 
 NA> like SystemD, Selinux and Gnome 3?

+1

 NA> If Microsoft is such a big bad evil corporation, does that mean that 
 NA> Apple, Google, Facebook and other open-source fanatical companies get a free 
 NA> pass?

thay have one thing in common, thay all sooks

 NA> I notice Linux techies seem to give their OS a free pass... 
 NA> CONSTANTLY.

maybe its too free ?

 NA> Even with serious bugs and vulnerabilities like SSL, Heartbleed, the 
 NA> freaking "beep" command insecurity... to say nothing
about buggy device 
 NA> drivers.

i can disable this in my kernel if unwanted, but for now i just use default
debian preconfigured .config to build a gentoo kernel on linode.com, its
still unoptimized i know, but i can reduce load time with it, and provide
it to linode.com to make it even better for other gentoo (loosers) to use
:)

 NA> Sorry Benny, I know you post in good fun,

atleast you understand me then

 NA> and I know I'm fair game but every
 NA> time I see another yay-for-open-source post its just... cringeworthy.

did yuo mean some other words ? >>Canadiens<< :)


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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