Nextgrid a day ago

I think people wildly underestimate how expensive skilled software development, leadership and especially design is (considering even Apple can't apparently find good designers).

The price of renting a billboard isn't going to cover more than a week's worth of those people's fees. Billboard-induced shame has actually much more chance of succeeding.

akimbostrawman 6 hours ago

Proprietary software prisoners will do absolutely everything to appease there abusive prison guard except simply quit walking into the golden cage every morning.

AlexandrB a day ago

There's no relief in open source. I've watched Ubuntu and Gnome copy some of Apple and Microsoft's worst ideas over the last 20 years and somehow put an even worse spin on them. I fully expect to see "Gnome 52 - Liquid Sugar" or something in a couple of years.

  • akimbostrawman 6 hours ago

    >There's no relief in open source. I've watched Ubuntu and Gnome copy some of Apple and Microsoft's worst ideas

    The whole point of FOSS is that a single groups decision or opinion do not dictated your computing. There are enough forks or alternatives.