The Free Software Foundation is holding an auction to celebrate its 40th anniversary. You can bid on the original sketch of the GNU head by [Etienne Suvasa] and [Richard Stallman’s] Internet …
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/your-chance-to-get-a-head-a-gnu-head-specifically/
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@j The only reason I'd participate in such an auction is if I could burn the sketch right after receiving it.
The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
The entire free/open/whatever you want to call it ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape (not even proper Scotch brand tape, no, that's proprietary of course, can't have that. Cheap, knockoff tape).
If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus. But they won't even be able to do that right.
>The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
Yeah but closed source is worse. Linux got good just in time to suck. Windows has put way more work into sucking for way longer.
@j At least with Windows, when USB 5 comes out, I'll know it's gonna be supported from the get go. Meanwhile, with Linux, I'll think it has had support all along, only to discover a year after the tech dropped, that they're finally finishing up the drivers.
Literally had this experience with USB 4. It was all in the news for a while and everybody made the hype videos on it with the brand new devices that supported it. And then after the news died off completely, I find a story in phoronix that they've finished adding something regarding the USB4 standard, and now Linux finally fully supports it. And I had a massive WTF moment. Something similar happened with support for some feature of older Intel CPUs.
Of course this is not actually about USB4. I haven't even encountered, let alone used an USB4 device. But it's a big example for me for how badly things are actually being run behind the scenes. Every once in a while I hear news about Linux finally implementing something that was considered standard on Windows for long enough, that I didn't even second guess it that Linux must have support.
Sometimes Linux is great with driver support, but other times it is utter shit, and the people involved seem to be making conscious decisions as to do the exact opposite of taking logistical measures to improve things. Didn't you share an article about how the single maintainer of some WiFi drivers decided to quit? Like how in the hell do you allow a single person to be responsible for that in the first place?! Let alone get blind-sighted by the guy taking his leave, especially when WiFi support has been a notorious issue for Linux? Why didn't the community take active measures to get more people involved in that part of development before?
Whether Windows is good or bad, at least I know that it is the way it is by choice of the people up top. Linux and open source are good my mere chance, not because of the competency of everyone involved. That's how I see things, and that's not a good position to be in. This entire thing is being kept aloft thanks to Linus. When he goes away, if things don't improve in leadership, Linux is gonna flop faster than Windows 8.
@Suiseiseki @j
>If that happens, GNU Linux-libre and/or GNU Hurd will save the day.
Hahahahahahahaha
Haven't had a laugh like that in a while. You graduated in my eyes from being a deluded troll, into being completely insane. Imagine invoking Hurd... you're a laughing stock.
>WiFi support has been a notorious issue for Linux? Why didn't the community take active measures to get more people involved in that part of development before?
The Wi-Fi support issue is due to many cards requiring proprietary peripheral software that you are sometimes even forbidden to distribute (not that you should do so) and throwing more people at that kind of issue is not going to help, unless you can find the handful of people in the world that are extremely skilled at reverse engineering and write replacement peripheral software (unfortunately most of such people don't really care about freedom, thus usually don't bother if they see that the manufacturer will adjust the proprietary license to allow re-distribution).
>Linux and open source are good my mere chance, not because of the competency of everyone involved.
Linux only ever became functional due to the competency. of the GNU developers.
>This entire thing is being kept aloft thanks to Linus.
You really love giving credit to the wrong person don't you?
Linus is more like a DU sinker.
>When he goes away, if things don't improve in leadership, Linux is gonna flop faster than Windows 8.
If that happens, GNU Linux-libre and/or GNU Hurd will save the day.