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I was just thinking about why many things on Linux are better. Like the install process on Linux is years ahead of windows.
Then it occurred to me that windows only improves things that can make them money. If you need to install windows, then you can deal with the crappy installer.
Linux devs improve the parts they think need to be better. The decisions are not guided by money and can be made without bias.
Now that you’ve got the idea apply it to everything in capitalist society. Especially if something is owned by shareholders.
This realization somehow amazes and depresses me at the same time
Most people don’t install windows. It comes pre installed on something they bought. Microsoft probably puts more time into automating the process.
Also, last time I installed windows it was a breeze. I haven’t installed Linux in at least a decade, so I can’t speak for that.
Sounds like the decisions about what to make, how to make it and for whom to make it are done by the people doing the work. 🤔🫢
The install process on windows is clicking a few buttons.
For the vast majority of users it’s a way better experience.
From my experience(installing windows 10, 11, linux mint and nobara), installing linux is way easier than installing windows
Microsoft loves open source nowadays.
People do a huge amount of their work for free.
They’re also heavily invested in Linux for the cloud. So any work done there helps them.
With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.
The fact they’ve been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don’t have such a plan. Or won’t ever have one.
Seems unlikely with how they work now. You also can’t really extinguish foss.
.Net is cross platform and open source as well now.
Maybe if Linux becomes a competitor in the desktop market. But I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Steve Balmer wasn’t as keen on it…
Anyone know how I can program Anarchism?
Allow all code merges automatically
Open a GitHub repo with a hello world script and accept each and every commit
work on decentralized technology like lemmy
The same way, generally. Work on decentralized, open source software. It’s modern Mutual Aid.
Open a git repo.
Holy shit, this is an old old meme. This image has got to be at least 25 years old
it’s a parody of this poster from early 2000s
You wouldn’t download the means of production!
You wouldn’t steal a policeman’s helmet!
and then go to the toilet in his helmet!
And give it to his grieving widow.
And then steal it back!
Of course tankie-shaming is something the RIAA would do to deter piracy…
I think it was created to make fun of the RIAA’s campaign back then, I don’t think they actually did it. Kind of like the “NAPSTER BAD” Metallica flash animation.
On an old coloured plastic iMac too.
Those things were so hideous… and I actually thought they were cool at the time… well. Except OS9 sucked balls.
The power mac versions with the pull-to-open side were cooler. Mostly because there was a space above the PSU had just enough space to accommodate a tub of cottage cheese.
Pop it in on a Friday…. You’d be having class…. Elsewhere on Monday…
Herecy
Heresy
Hear say
Hennessy
Hershey
Heracles
When the program is free, it’s socialism. The more free the program is, the more socialism it is. When the source is free, it’s communism.
A reminder from Microsoft… While he’s using a Mac?
But the dude is programming with the Communist devil so he is the one doing the communism! They need a windows toting jesus to surf in with sunglasses and a guitar or something
Preferably on the back of a dinosaur.
Balmer? Yes, I believe that was one of the biggest blunders at a conference he was attending 😂.
No Mac. That’s one of those cool colorful monitors from 1999
Those were iMacs…
Maybe the first ones. I definitely had one for my windows 98 PC.
Talk shit on FOSS, by comparing it to communism like it’s a bad thing, on Lemmy.
Now there’s a message this place will love, lol.
It’s clearly a red scare parody.
Of course, and it’s an old image too, but it still amused me thinking of the contrast between the message and the current audience.
There isn’t, the message itself is satire. The audience is precisely who the message is for, it’s making fun of Microsoft comparing FOSS to Communism, parodying red scare propaganda.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, of course.
Trying to explain satire is communism
it seems like a pro-communist programming message to me. the red dude looks super cool and supportive.
Yeah, he’s probably giving mad tips to the dev and he looks happy, so we know the red dude is not just a dickhead.
Hey Microsoft, your GitHub is showing
If github is still showing, you must be logged in.
(At some point that username existed: don’t know when it was killed)
Well at least they are slighty more open to open source software since it make them money.
They’re just making face, doing what is necessary to prove they’re not evil, cuz open source software is in now.
I highly doubt that. They are open-sourcing a small suite because it is economical to do so. Closed source means constantly having to re-train newcomers. Normalizing VsCode and friends will go a long ways. Same thing Google did with their IT certs.
Microsoft open-sourced all of dotnet core, which is arguably the largest and most well-maintained (with exceptions) collection of tools/platforms for developers that exsists to date. So, I don’t really agree that they’re just “making face”
They’re absolutely just “making face”. For each thing Microsoft frees, how many more are proprietary shit? Visual Studio, proprietary. Windows, proprietary. Etc.
Based.
Shit, I though at least one will be like “where linux” 🤣🤣🤣.
This is great, where are the rest?
This is a photoshop, the original from Modern Humorist said something like “when you download MP3s, you’re downloading communism” and it was attributed to the RIAA instead of Microsoft.
Source: I owned the print of this a couple decades ago, and you can probably find Modern Humorist on archive.org
Thanks!
That iconic mac was the icing on the
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