Interview: Ask Bruce Perens What You Will 129
Bruce Perens is a computer programmer and one of the most important advocates for the open source community. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative with ESR and has worked towards reforms of national and international technology policies. He is an amateur radio enthusiast, and has pushed for open radio communication standards. He is also our interview guest today. As usual, ask as many questions as you'd like, but please, one per post.
Re:Newton (Score:1, Insightful)
You think the 2nd amendment actually keeps you safe and free?
That's cute; you just keep believing that.
Re:Newton (Score:3, Insightful)
You think the government actually keeps you safe and free?
That's cute; you just keep believing that.
How do we address the weaknesses of Open Source? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert and use open source when I can (I also contribute to a minor open source emulator.)
1. What can we as a community do to address the weaknesses of Open Source?
That is, I see time and time again in open source:
* Functionality not on par with certain commercial apps,
* Bad UI,
* Poor documentation such as man files that don't have any freaking examples,
* A million and one clones that duplicate basic functionality
2. How do you respond to trolls who call open source "open sores" ?
3. How do we overcome the perceived image that "you get what you pay for" That is, some people think that if it is free it isn't worth anything, or it is only "worth" something if I must pay $$$ for it ?
4. Finally, is there an up-to-date list that shows all the various open source "equivalents" of commercial software?
Cheers
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Only Cowards Censor
Re:Newtown (Score:2, Insightful)
What makes him think that he has the right to decide that for me?
LK
My question is for Slashdot (Score:2, Insightful)
Did Bruce ACTUALLY agree to this, or is this another one of your retarded 'ask blah blah blah whatever you want' that just vanishes into nothing because the person in question never agreed to any such thing?
Do you feel that you can continue to act like morons and continue to have any visitors at all?
Being that timothy seems to have the highest IQ of the group, how does it feel to work with a group of 5 or 6 people that have a combined IQ of less than 100?
Re:Newtown (Score:2, Insightful)
My owning a firearm does not affect you in any way whatsoever. I've never fired it at anyone and I never plan on it either. If you're that worried about the your' safety and that of others around you, there are far more deadlier things that can be outlawed (cars, alcohol, high-fructose corn syrup, etc).
I wish I never posed the original question, I'm getting modded into oblivion :-)
Re:if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fe (Score:2, Insightful)
Well that escalated quickly. I think that with the obvious discrimination against rural-dwellers in your post (and the assumption that I am one), people will decide for themselves who is "civilized".
Wait, why am I wasting my time on this? I usually don't respond to AC's. Have a good one.