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Free is too expensive (Economist)Free is too expensive (Economist)Posted Apr 4, 2012 21:34 UTC (Wed) by Arker (guest, #14205)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by danieldk Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
That is just silly. All you need to do is compile the program!
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Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 5, 2012 13:45 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Not an options for 99% of desktop users. And this percentage goes down as time goes on.
Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 5, 2012 18:11 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Don't you mean "up"? Or is compilation becoming more accessible for desktop users?
Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 5, 2012 19:39 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Percentage most definitely goes down - and pretty fast. Don't know what I've thought when I wrote that.
Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 5, 2012 21:15 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Umm…"up" again? You wrote that "compiling programs" is *not* an option for "99% of desktop users" and that the percentage is going *down* over time. Your first reply here seems to indicate that compiling their applications is becoming an option for more desktop users as time goes on. Am I (we?) getting confused with the negations here? Sorry for the pedantry, but things aren't lining up by my readings of this.
Free is too expensive (Economist) Posted Apr 5, 2012 21:35 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Well, if we remove all the negatives then the bare fact is that people perceive desktop in the same way as they perceive cars. Hundred years ago it was more important for the driver to know how to fix car rather then know how to switch lanes on highway (because highways had only two lanes back then). Today a lot of drivers never even look under the hood. Desktop passed the same the same path but much faster. There are some enthusiasts who know all about compilers, computer languages, etc, but even developers are increasingly ignorant. Thus solution (source distribution) which was perfect forty years ago is not acceptable today.
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