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>why is open source so bad?
Imagine a donut on the street, free, and fresh. Nothing bad will happen if you eat the donut.
Now imagine that same donut in a bakery, but you have to pay a dollar or two.
Which donut are you eating?
That's the problem with open source.
Imagine a donut on the street, free, and fresh. Nothing bad will happen if you eat the donut.
Now imagine that same donut in a bakery, but you have to pay a dollar or two.
Which donut are you eating?
That's the problem with open source.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi that's the problem with the comparison though lol, something bad might happen if you eat the donut xD
@beardalaxy @zemichi Right? If you ate a floor donut in real life you'd get sick off of it. But in the hypothetical you can just eat floor donuts and be OK.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi no I also mean with the open source software, in the way of needing to troubleshoot the fuck out of it meanwhile people are like "just works for me!" I like tinkering with stuff but sometimes even explicitly following tutorials doesn't work.
I finally tried out yt-dlp the other day and was astonished at how easy it was compared to lots of other software I've used like it lol.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi and you still have to do a fair amount of troubleshooting with closed source stuff, but it's usually way easier to work with and has a higher success rate
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>You only want the store donut because of the guarantee that it won't do anything bad to you.
Not a gotcha, but it's funny that I didn't mention the store donut was safe, only that it was the same. Naturally we'd infer the store donut is safe because of what it is but we need reassurances that a naturally "gross" street donut is safe.
We pay for and pirate products because of what they are but we don't go for free stuff because they're figuratively and literally on the outside of what we're used to.
It probably goes the other way too mentally. Some open source stuff seems like garbage because they're making donuts for the street, not the store. GIMP has always been been trash to me and it probably is because it's in the name.
>You only want the store donut because of the guarantee that it won't do anything bad to you.
Not a gotcha, but it's funny that I didn't mention the store donut was safe, only that it was the same. Naturally we'd infer the store donut is safe because of what it is but we need reassurances that a naturally "gross" street donut is safe.
We pay for and pirate products because of what they are but we don't go for free stuff because they're figuratively and literally on the outside of what we're used to.
It probably goes the other way too mentally. Some open source stuff seems like garbage because they're making donuts for the street, not the store. GIMP has always been been trash to me and it probably is because it's in the name.
I mean if you know *for sure* that nothing bad will happen if you eat the donut, then yeah you'd take the street donut right? You only want the store donut because of the guarantee that it won't do anything bad to you.